“Although Apple’s competitors saw PC sales weaken this summer, all signs suggest that the Mac was the exception, driven by back-to-school sales and the new desktop models released in late July (not to mention store traffic from people coming in to buy iPhones and iPads),” P.E.D. reports.
“The average Q4 unit sales estimate of the 31 analysts we’ve polled is 3.86 million Macs,” P.E.D. reports. “Five of them, however, expect Apple to report that it sold 4 million or more.”
Full article, with a list of 20+ analysts’ Mac units sales estimates for Apple’s Q410, here.
I pegged back to school Mac sales as one of the wild cards that nobody really has a handle on. We know Mac use among college and high school students is growing exponentially, but we don’t know what the exponent is.
I pegged back to school Mac sales as one of the wild cards that nobody really has a handle on. We know Mac use among college and high school students is growing exponentially, but we don’t know what the exponent is.
The exponent is a quantity representing the power to which a given number or expression is to be raised, usually expressed as a raised symbol beside the number or expression.
Problem solved!
The exponent is a quantity representing the power to which a given number or expression is to be raised, usually expressed as a raised symbol beside the number or expression.
Problem solved!
@Zeke – it’s elevendy
@Zeke – it’s elevendy
What isn’t mentioned is that Macs are not finding their way into far more businesses. For whatever reason, many IT people seem to have dropped their hardline anti-Mac attitudes and now say they are just another computer that they can support. I suspect their relatively positive experiences with the iPhone and iPad has changed their thinking.
What isn’t mentioned is that Macs are not finding their way into far more businesses. For whatever reason, many IT people seem to have dropped their hardline anti-Mac attitudes and now say they are just another computer that they can support. I suspect their relatively positive experiences with the iPhone and iPad has changed their thinking.
The fabled tipping point is in Apple’s rear view mirror.
The fabled tipping point is in Apple’s rear view mirror.
BUT BUT BUT! All those tech pundit trolls said the Mac was languishing in decline because Apple as cannibalizing itself with the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, iDevice universe!!!
What, you mean the Mac market is still G R O W I N G ?!?!?!
Wow. Who knew TechTards were so stoooopid?
Conclusion: iDevices are eating the Windows PC market alive. And I like it!
BUT BUT BUT! All those tech pundit trolls said the Mac was languishing in decline because Apple as cannibalizing itself with the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, iDevice universe!!!
What, you mean the Mac market is still G R O W I N G ?!?!?!
Wow. Who knew TechTards were so stoooopid?
Conclusion: iDevices are eating the Windows PC market alive. And I like it!
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… are iPads computers, to be counted as computers? Or are they something else? Or are they to be COUNTED as “something else”? Or, maybe, the iPad is the new #3 in the market, inserted to keep any mention of the Mac from a place in the Top Five?
And, YEAH ! ! ! What happened to the guys who just a week or two ago told us the iPad was cannibalizing PCs across the board? The Mac is a PC, isn’t it?
… are iPads computers, to be counted as computers? Or are they something else? Or are they to be COUNTED as “something else”? Or, maybe, the iPad is the new #3 in the market, inserted to keep any mention of the Mac from a place in the Top Five?
And, YEAH ! ! ! What happened to the guys who just a week or two ago told us the iPad was cannibalizing PCs across the board? The Mac is a PC, isn’t it?
@So, Tell me..
Whatever you want to call an iPad, it is NOT a Mac, and is not counted within Mac Sales totals, at least not by Apple. As far as “cannibalizing PC’s across the board,” there are still many pundits that think and write of PCs with a picture of a Wintel box or laptop purchased at Best Buys firmly in mind. Many never factor Macs or Linux or any other type of Personal Computer when they speak of PCs.
@So, Tell me..
Whatever you want to call an iPad, it is NOT a Mac, and is not counted within Mac Sales totals, at least not by Apple. As far as “cannibalizing PC’s across the board,” there are still many pundits that think and write of PCs with a picture of a Wintel box or laptop purchased at Best Buys firmly in mind. Many never factor Macs or Linux or any other type of Personal Computer when they speak of PCs.