“After the market closed today Apple posted its financial results for the fiscal fourth quarter, and among the many happy numbers — profits of $904 million, up 67 percent from the same time last year — was this amazing one: 2.2 million. That’s the quantity of Macs Apple sold during the quarter, beating its previous record quarter by 400,000,” Farhad Manjoo blogs for Salon.
“About 800,000 of the machines were desktops, and about 1.4 million were laptops. The number cements Apple’s status as a computer-sales powerhouse. Though it still trails Dell (5 million sold in the quarter) and H.P. (4.3 million), Apple’s sales are growing far faster than those of the Windows PC market,” Manjoo reports.
“There is a real story here: By binding its hardware and software — its OS and its machines — Apple chose long ago to part ways with the rest of the industry. For years, that model looked doomed to fail. The Windows hegemony looked unbeatable,” Manjoo writes.
“To be sure, nothing in today’s numbers signals the end of Windows. But that a company can not only survive but thrive without buying into the Redmond model of development, that’s now obvious. These numbers prove it,” Manjoo writes. “It’s a big story. And if Jobs keeps doing what he’s doing, it’ll get bigger still every quarter.”
Full article, which also includes discussion of Apple’s strong iPod and iPhone sales, here.
“The only other alternative is if there were competing OS’ bound to proprietary hardware platforms “
There’s no company which follows that model which has more than a few percent worldwide share, Apple included.
The only thing that’s pathetic is your comeback.
You’ll have to do better than that.
“You’ll have to do better than that.”
I understand that facts don’t sit well with the more reality challenged posters such as yourself.
By any objective measurement 1.9% share in a market is pathetic.
Only 2.2 millon Macs? Apple would sell 3 times that amount if only the advertsed all the other macs, rather than just the iMac. Here in the UK, I only ever see adds for iMac’s. If they want to sell more, they need more adds for ALL Macs. Also the price of Macs here is still too much money. Lower the price.
“By any objective measurement 1.9% share in a market is pathetic.”
Really? Well, you better tell the execs at BMW that by any “objective” measure, they’re pathetic.
I realize that truth doesn’t sit well with the more fact obsessed posters such as yourself but, please, get a clue.
“Really? Well, you better tell the execs at BMW that by any “objective” measure, they’re pathetic.”
I didn’t know BMW competed in the computer market, but you’re right, their share of the computer market is pathetic.
Well, I can see you’re now reduced to witless rebuttals.
Anywho, signing off. Time’s awasting. But keep those insightful comments coming!
“Well, I can see you’re now reduced to witless rebuttals.”
There was never a point you weren’t posting witless rebuttals.
I guess the best thing to do when faced with incontrovertible facts you don’t like is to try to draw analogies in the car market, a market which has totally different dynamics.