“No surprises here: The Mac continues to kick ass,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD. “And it’s kicking a lot of it in Asia.”
“Needham analyst Charlie Wolf notes that June marked the 21st consecutive quarter that Mac shipment growth exceeded that of the PC market,” Paczkowski reports. “Mac shipments grew 14.6 percent for the month — more than five times the PC market’s growth rate of 2.7 percent.”
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“Driving that growth tear: The home and business markets and Asia. Mac shipments rose 13 percent in a global home market that declined .3 percent overall. In the business market, they grew 31.5 percent, more than six times the five percent growth rate charted by the rest of the market. And in Asia, they simply blew the roof off the market with shipments that grew 67.6 percent thanks to soaring demand in China,” Paczkowski reports. “Wolf figures the region accounted for a jaw-dropping 55.2 percent of the year-over-year growth in worldwide Mac shipments.”
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