“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.]