“An outrageous claim? It isn’t,” Evans writes. “It is a statement of fact.”
Evans writes, “Canalysys does include iPad sales within its calculations, and when it does it finds that the three million plus tablets Apple shifted in the second quarter actually equates to six per cent of the portable computer market. Apple’s own figures reveal the company sold 3.47 million Macs in Q2… If you add Apple’s 8.4 million iPhone sales to Mac and iPad sales, you get a figure of 15.1 million. Percentage-wise, that is up there with number one PC maker, HP.”
“That truth is that Apple leads the PC industry, delivering quarter after quarter of Mac marketshare growth for the last 13 straight quarters,’ Evans writes. “iPhone has set the standard for what a smartphone should be, and iPad has eaten the netbook market… This is the new PC world. And it is an Apple planet. Get used to it.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s “iPhone” isn’t really a phone at all. It’s really a small touchscreen Mac OS X computer, a Mac nano tablet, if you will. Here’s how misnamed the iPhone is: Some people are complaining that Jobs didn’t spend enough time on the Mac in his keynote! Folks, iPhone is not only a Mac, it’s the most radical new Mac in years! What’s to stop Apple from making a 12-inch (and larger, and smaller) one of these (use the headset for the phone, please) and calling it a Mac tablet? …The main thing about the “iPhone” is that it’s really a pocket Mac. It has email, SMS, full-featured Web browsing, and much more. But, beyond that, it is a platform that’s just sitting there waiting for Apple to sell software for it. Just imagine games with the large multi-touch display and the built-in accelerometer! …What about Mac OS X market share? Each iPhone is technically a Mac, right? If so, Apple will at least double their Mac shipments in the first year alone. Let’s hope IDC and Gartner count them all! – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, January 09, 2007
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “ds” for the heads up.]
Yeah, the MDN take from ’07 is just what I thought at the time. I’ve never been a computer guy, and I had watched that keynote hoping for Leopard news because I was ready to make the switch. But even I could see that iPhone was going to change things. There was a video out there of some reporter doing a live broadcast from one of the original iPhone lines, and he was more or less mocking people because he said it was ‘just a phone’. How blind or in how much denial would a person have to have been to not see that it was, and is, soooo much more than just a phone. I hated computers growing up and only started using them as an adult, yet I knew immediately the impact iPhone would have. The times, they are a changin’……
Why didn’t he include iPod touch units as well? They can do almost everything an iPhone can do. I’m guessing it’s because Apple doesn’t report iPod touch sales separately, so it couldn’t factor into his argument as well. Still though, a note about the touch would have been appropriate.
sshhhhhh. let’s keep this secret for now.
When you look at it that way, it is really interesting to think that Mac OS X is the #1 selling OS in the world.
There is yet another dimension untouched in the article. Studies show users of Macs and other Apple devices use them at a much higher rate than users of competing products.
It’s just fine with me for numskulls to make these claims but anyone with half a brain knows that gadgets such as phones and glass slates are not computers.
They may have some computing capability (read email, surf the net, play some games) and some circuit boards inside, but they produce nothing. Therefore, they are not computers.
If anyone from Apple is looking/lurking, please change dashboard into rintime environment for iPad apps & offer a touch pad to go with it.
@Just Fine
Hmmm, my IPad can create documents (text, spreadsheets, presentations), edit photos and print to printers.
What definition of “produce” do you use?
I saw this story and a few others on the ever-irritating Google “News”- PC Mag claims Apple’s Droid tests are “bogus,” Apple is also being called a “whiner” and “worst in security.”
I now just glance at the headlines and skim the articles- too much hatred and stupidity, not enough credibility out there these days..
@Just Fine
And what percentage of ‘Computers’ are used exclusively for ‘None Producing’ activities (read email, surf the net, play some games) your definition. I know dozens of people that use their ‘Computers’ for nothing more than those activities. So I guess all of those $400 Dell bottom feeders can’t be counted as computers. This is not even counting NetBooks. The iPad has been on the market 3+ months and is just beginning to revolutionize the PC world. The iPhone dominates internet access among smart ‘Devices’ because people are using them instead of their ‘Real Computers’ due to the convenience. I would guess that more than 50% of consumers use their ‘Computers’ for just those ‘Non Producing’ activities.
@JustFine
iMovie on iPhone produces movies.
Your definition of a computer is conveniently narrow. I’m a designer and I use my MacBook Pro for producing only about 40% of the time I’m using it. Even if the iPad and iPhone were just for consumption (which they aren’t), people spend a substantial amount of time consuming on their computers.
When Steve Ballmer was asked about the iPad, even he called the iPad a computer. IDC and Gartner may need to read the definition of what a computer is. It is not a magic box that runs Microsoft Windows!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
A computer is a programmable machine that receives input, stores and manipulates data//information, and provides output in a useful format.
It is time to grow up boys and see the new world that Apple has created and just get over your MS dreams.
Maybe this is only because I have read the article, but if they add the two percentages of the mobile and desktop and combine them to get to 15%, would that not then be 15 out of 200?
I remember a verizon rep telling me the LG voyager was going to destroy the iphone…. Thinking about it now cracks me up. Wish I knew where he was now just so I could ask him how he feels about it now.
I want to read the stupid comments from the Netbook’s fanboys saying that apple should get into the netbook market and all those stupid comments on how the biggest tech company in the world should be drive.
So, is there some other stupid thinking apple should get into the netbook segment?
@ Troy
Apple’s already in the netbook segment, except they’re the only ones actually making money in it.
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WHAT! The iPhone and iPad are not Macs! Even the master spin-meister himself, steve jobs, had the sense to not try to float that turd! Every time I read something from a MDN contributor I’m stunned at the ridicules takes on the topic. You people have less than no creditability! Hit whores, all of you. Why is it that opinions, no mater how stupid and lacking any factual content are passed as fact and blindly accepted by the masses. Clearly MDN doesn’t know what a computer is or what it does. Hey MDN, if I get a lobotomy, can I get a job with you? I promise I never base anything I write on facts or reality! Isn’t there anyone out there that perform several seconds of critical thinking in a row? Your head is not just a place to cram your ear buds into, try using it once in a while…
Yeah, and my moped’s a Harley…
Also…
@m159:
What studies? Not trying to start an argument. I would just like to know what studies you’re talking about…
“uncommon sense!”
Learn to spell and form sentences in English, moron. Then maybe you’ll have some “creditability”.
@ AAPLguy:
Right? Sounds like George Bush wrote that post.
Actually, though, creditability is an actual word:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creditability
@AAPLguy…
I wrote this fast and did not proof read. You understood everything I said… If you’re that much of a stickler for accuracy, why didn’t you step up and call MDN out on their obvious and incessant Apple distortion field. Instead you decide to point out a misspelled word while ignoring the mountain of garbage, inaccuracies, and pure bulls**t pumped out daily by MDN. You would have more credibility if you did!
“When you look at it that way, it is really interesting to think that Mac OS X is the #1 selling OS in the world.”
Ummmm no, Bill. Think about it.
@uncommon
You don’t belong here… you make too much sense. The nerve of you insisting on facts. Where have you been? In this place- doesn’t matter what you say, as long as you spell it right.