“Apple’s Mac sales are growing at a rapid clip. In fact, the latest reports suggest Mac sales are up 26 percent since Apple released its new MacBook Air and Mac OS X ‘Lion.’ For Apple, that couldn’t be better news,” Don Reisinger reports for eWeek.
10 reasons why Apple’s Mac sales are surging:
1. Design, design, design
2. Security is a factor
3. Power
4. 4. Mac OS X Lion is a top option
5. Longevity, anyone?
6. The Mac App Store
7. Windows won’t be left out
8. Support is top-notch
9. Apple understands mobility
10. Style
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The link to the full story is wrong…
#1 and #10 are almost the same to me, but this is a good list.
I’ve watched 3 of my hard core PC user friends make the switch in the last year or so due to the current lack of viruses plaguing the OS and the competitive price points, coupled with the fact they’ve had very good experiences with their iPhones both in quality and customer service.
Not necessarily. You can have style in the absence of a functional design, or the converse. But Apple seeks to combine functional design with style.
Better security is the reason I prefer Mac. Windows is great but too much viruses.
Windows is great? Vista and 7 are just clusterf— messes.
It looks like items 1 and 10 are the same.
Design and Style are linked, but not the same.
The design is the entire thing, inside and out.
Style is the external form, materials and finish.
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs
I would have combined #1 and #10 as:
#1 Form and Substance
followed by:
#2 It just works (or the power to be your best or tools for the mind etc)
11. They just work.
You’re absolutely right with your assessment! Customers now appreciates design and simplicity !!!
No student going off to college whats anything except Apple products. The decade of Windows PC games is over. This new generation wants social mobile digital products and media services from one safe secure source. They want the hole deal not 1 feature of the digital ecosystem. Only Apple offers this now.
This is also what everyone else is coming to understand.
“4. Mac OS X Lion is a top option”
In the end this might be the biggest reason for huge Mac sales and this is the reason there is not a Tablet market. Lion may not be there yet, but I see the day when there is no file system. Of coarse, there will always be a file system, but who needs to know about it?
The biggest headache, I think, for the “masses” is the file system gets in the way. They have no clue where they saved the file. Who cares where the file is saved? Really.
Geeks may want to know how it works (hence Android has some fanboys), but the masses dont care. Unless I am mistaken, doesn’t Lion get us closer to a no-file-system look and feel? Just like the iPad?
Trouble free man, that is what I love about mine.
My PCs are largely trouble free but I can’t really claim this is the norm since I work in IT and know how to keep windows running smoothly and to me that is the difference, with Windows you have to take certain steps and precautions to keep a system running well.
With my mac I really never think about it, I just use the thing and it fires right up every time without fail.
I agree, Dude. The day that your old Mac finally fails to boot up properly is a shocker. My circa-2004 12″ Powerbook G4 finally bit the dust. I bought a new 13″ MBA/128GB a few days later – what a sweet device!
The day any Mac I own that is over three years old and fails/gets dropped/or otherwise dies is a day of celebration for me!
Not only would the Mac have worked hard for me with daily use in my business consulting work, but it means I can get a new, more higher spec’d one, up and running within a week.
Did that recently when I replaced my 2007 MBP (fading screen, failed SuperDrive with a dented and scratched body on account of dropping it on the floor) with the new 13″ MBPT (‘T’ for Thunderbolt).
I call it my ‘tombstone upgrade’ policy.
Please close your italics tag MDN.
I’m a recent switcher. Got fed up with Windows and the threat of viruses hanging over my head every minute I was online. Windows is like driving a bus – it’s commodious and can seat 50 passengers, that is to say the Windows bus supports loads of programs. But driving it isn’t a pleasant experience. And among the bus passengers you’d get the smelly old drunk sitting beside you. That’s what using Windows programs is like – putting up with an unintuitive UI – like a smelly old drunk.
Since I made the switch to OS X I can definitively say that using a Mac is like driving a BMW. You’re cosseted all the way and using OS X apps is like having a hot chick sitting beside you – they sure are pretty to look at. I like my hot chicks smart too, a bit like Nicky Hilton, although she isn’t that smart but still I’d knock her.
Yes, using Windows was like driving a bus—in Colombia.
Remember the bus scene in “Romancing the Stone”?
Thanks for posting that video up, Jane. Had me belly laughing all the way at the part where she’s driving the bus. It’s hilarious how the chicken is let loose and flies around inside the bus – that’s Windows voodoo for you. I’m waiting for the Windows bus to fall off a cliff. Haha.
After using Lion for 3 weeks, I’m not sure it is an advantage…. At least with regards to Apple’s programs. “Versions” and “Duplicate” are a very poor substitution for the now GONE “Save As” command. Temporary changes I make in Keynote Files ( eg to get one part of a grouped object in an old file) become permanent changes unless I remember to click “revert to saved”.
Adds multiple steps and issues….
Also try to reinstall Snow Leopard on a Lion upgrade. It is very cumbersome to do so.
I’m still rocking Snow Leopard. Lion f%#^s up too many things, like Spaces and auto-save.
Canada Mark: “… try to reinstall Snow Leopard on a Lion upgrade.”
30 years of HD failures has taught me to use Carbon Copy Cloner to a 2-3 Terabyte HD.
One partition (large) takes daily archives of changed files & extra smaller partitions take a weekly or monthly “Clone”. Then I ALWAYS have a bootable, easily clonable HD that I can reinstall on my Mac.
Time to revert (like I had to do from 10.6.8 to 10.6.7) only took 40 minutes w/150 GB.
I ALWAYS do at least 2 Clones prior to any OS update or major version change. Life is easy.
Where is the “Number one plus” reason?.
Journalist Missed Out on Reliability
#6 Mac App Store
Increasingly, I’m loving the App store. Any developers out there? Listen up, some of us are making choices, and usually end up buying from the App store when given the option. It makes it so much easier to have one account that we can use for tax purposes at the end of the year, one-click purchasing, no funky serial numbers or registration issues, trust of source, reviews, and an easy way to download and reinstall. I’ve purchased far more apps since the App store launched than I ever had before. Sure, still offer trials and the app on your site as well, but get your apps in the store!
#7 Windows
It’s worth noting that you can buy Parallels and Windows Home Premium 64-bit for $140 total with free shipping. (NewEgg).
This is pretty damn compelling if you need to run Windows. I have to run it for development and client support issues. On my twin-hard drive, quad-core i7 MacBook Pro, I can dedicate 4 virtual cores to Windows, and still have 4 virtual cores for the Mac side and things *fly* on both. Something goes wrong on the Windows side? No problem, just restore an image from the archive. If I had a job where I had to use Windows all day, I’d still get a MacBook Pro.
Snow works for me. Never jump into a new O.S.. Apple or otherwise, it’s foolish. Wait a little while until the bugs get worked out.
#7 is completely wrong. I’d guess 99.9% of consumers buying Macs leave Windows completely behind.
#7 is BRAND
People are flocking to Apple because it’s the ‘in’ thing as well as for all the other reasons you mention.
I installed Lion to my brand new MBP, what a mistake. Lion is nice, but since I use the Mail app which got dumbed down, it’s totally useless. Meanwhile I do my work with Snow Leopard iMac and try to find time to re-install the SL on the MBP.
It’s funny, there was an analist that quoted just last week that Mac sales were slowing significantly. Just shows you how they try and manipulate the market by putting out FUD onto the internet.
5. Longevity, anyone?
My PowerBook G4 just keeps running. I’ve updated my desktop system, but the PowerBook still does what I need in a laptop.
Laughable. Apple’s support is anything but “top notch”.
Ahhhahahahahahahaha………really, oh my, thanks for the laugh. You might not get the answer you want but try talking to HP or Toshiba en come back an say your sorry 🙂
Longevity!
I just bought a 2008 MacBook core2duo 2.4ghz and it still runs smoother and faster than my horrid 1 year old windows 7 laptop core2duo 2.6ghz that it replaced.