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Apple growing!!

Somebody please wake up Paul Thourot with the new figures,shesh

"Resistance is futile!"

ok.. totally off topic, but I gotta ask. Has anybody else had all of their DRM magically disappear recently in their itunes libraries?

Everything I've ever purchased recently is DRM free, and I did nothing to make this happen. - this is a bit freaky.

Must be the gremlins.

Woo Hoo!!

In the US market- total PC growth would have been less than 1% if not for Apple.

The troubling thing about this is that approx. 13 million pc were sold with Vista (under duress - no choice offered)

-- first post!!

>Jim - TIV
I made a purchase through iTunes on April 5 and the songs are still "protected".

@ Jim - TIV

No, but if you figure out how you did it you have to let us know!

-c

MW: 'life' (don't talk to me about life)

@ ChrissyOne

I'm sure you have an interesting life

These numbers don't look right. Toshiba selling more than Apple? Gateway selling more than Apple? Anyone here know *anyone* buying a Gateway? And Apple still at 5%? NO WAY! One of my in-house customers was expressing such frustration with her not-so-old Dell. She's waiting for it to DIE so she can buy a Mac!

So much for falling Mac sales. It pays to wait and see versus hypothosize about nothing.

Correct headline?

Isn't Apple market share up by 25%? The market share went from 4% in the first quarter of 2006 to 5% a year later. That's a 25% increase, not a 1% increase. The share went up by 1 percentage point. Perhaps that's what MDN meant?

Hey Lee, why don't you take your extreme leftist propaganda somewhere else? Like shove it up your ass, where it belongs.
I'm getting sick of MDN. All the left-wing nut-tards are ruining it.

The fact that Gateway and Acer still ship more units than Apple is a very sad commentary on computer users as a whole.

Great!! In another 30 years it just might surpass Dell and HP.

Yaaawwwwnnnnn. Someone wake me up when they hit 20%.

@Chrissy....

I'm in agreement, I'm pretty sure I can say your life is probably VERY interesting!

Not sure how this happened yet, but just to prove a point I burned a DVD of National Treasure purchased from the iTunes store in iDVD. Also, when I get info on any protected file, they all come up unlocked. I can use and import any movie or music file into iMovie, and export out of it also.

This happened overnight, or in the last few days I guess, and I've not installed any updates or new software. I'm running the home theater on a lampstand imac, g4 1.25, OSX 10.4.9

Just for fun I'm gonna go buy something from iTunes and see what happens.

"All the left-wing nut-tards are ruining it."

Do you even know what a liberal is? What left wing is?

Or do you just wait until someone tells you what to think?

I think a couple of things need to be clarified in these figures.

1. The figures reflect estimates of the number of units SHIPPED, not SOLD.

2. Table 2 reflects unit shipment estimates in the US only.

3. The 5% market share for Apple computer is for Q1 2007 only, not total market share.

ok, that file "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring" downloaded locked mp4. But the rest of the library, which is considerable, continues to be DRM free.

Must be a weird gift from the file corruption gods.

The bummer is Apple still can't ship more than Gateway.
Damn.

Macromancer... I'm guessing that TT's regular impersonator has re-appeared.

That, or TT has raided the liquor cabinet early today! Which, if it is the case... why didn't you call me over TT?

Give it a few quarters, joe...

All Apple needs now is the Beatles catalogue on iTunes and their turn to the Dark Side will be complete! HA, HA, HA, HA!

Speaking of the Beatles, I just watched a "Rocky Racoon" video made by some teenage guys. It was really good. Link here.

TowerTone, WTF, man? I mean c'mon. Lee was just saying the news was better than what the headline appeared to be. How is that left-wing? Care to answer that? Or maybe your just POSTING IN THE WRONG ARTICLE! SO WHY DON'T YOU TAKE YOUR PROPAGANDA (being a right-leaning kinda guy I'm not gonna say "right-wing propaganda) AND SHOVE IT WHERE IT'LL DO YOU THE MOST GOOD. AND FOLLOW IT WITH A CORN COB SO IT STAYS NICE AND SECURE.

JESUS H. CHRIST ON A CRUTCH WITH MARY, JOHN AND JOSEPH.

@ Jim - TIV

Just restore from your backup drive. That's what it's for!

"She's waiting for it to DIE so she can buy a Mac!"

I'm sure you can help accelerate that by removing protection and leaving it on the Internet exposed for afew mins....

@ life...

It is indeed interesting. But actually I was just quoting Marvin.

I don't think that was TT. He's conservative, but he's certainly no douchebag about it.
One of MDNs many, many anonymous lurking trolls, perhaps?

How come Gartner doesn't make a point that Apple had the greatest YTY growth in the US market: 30%! Dell: -15%... yikes.

Do these numbers include Apple store sales like they usually don't?

I miss Zune Tang.

here i am, company the size of a planet, and they ask me to make a g4 over 500mhz. call that job satisfaction? 'cos i sure don't. =)

@Towertone

Having a senior moment today? Or do right wing nut-tards make wayward comments like that all the time...

great

"In the US market- total PC growth would have been less than 1% if not for Apple."

Lets see: 2.9% growth in the market from 14395 units to 14811 or 416 units.

Apple's unit sales grew by 171k units.
HP's grew by 780k units.

The BEST you can say is Apple is responsible for 41% of that growth, or 1.18% but that's also misleading as it suggests all Apple's new sales come from growth and none of them come from the competition's losses. Yet Apple themselves claim a large number of sales come from switchers so that 1.18% cannot be correct.

Potentially HP could be responsible for all the GROWTH and then some, and Apple's sales could be at the expense of Dell or Gateway.

Lets assume a simple model where all the winners took share from the losers according to the ratio of their absolute gains in the market and took their same fair share of the growth (e.g HP's sales were up by 62% of the absolute gains of the winning vendors, that absolute gain figure obtained by summing all the winning vendors increases in unit sales, Apple was up by by 13% of that number and so on) On that basis, Apple took 103k units from Dell, 11k units from Gateway and 57k units from new growth, HP took 471k units from Dell, 48K units from Gateway and 260k units from new growth). In that model HP are responsible for 1.8% of the growth, Toshiba and Apple 0.4% each and Other for 0.3%

Still not bad, but not as good as a simplistic analysis might suggest.

Wow, I guess I have to check every headline and every post now.

Of course that wasn't me at 7:07.

Thank you Chrissy and Jim TIV for noticing.

Odd that someone else used it to attack me, though.....

hey dont taunt the community neocons !
they just love to spout hate about what they imagine to be the bad guys !
hey TT,
our country can only flourish when all points of view are respected !
when you diminish a segment of societys viewpoint, you are spreading hate ! (or at the very least, oppression)
a man in germany (in the '30s) proved to be very good at this
is this the credo of the right wing ?

head-

Keep in mind that wasn't me at 7:07.
And yes, I know the history of Germany.
You might also want to realize there are nuanced differences between neocon, Republican, right wing, and conservative.
And again, that was a left winger who posted under my name.

(thanks for the benefit of the doubt, Stab.)

@ TT
"Wow, I guess I have to check every headline and every post now. "

Welcome to the club, hon. Wait until you meet TowerToneTwo, TowerTripe, TubbyTone, TelleTowerTubby...

MDN, Give Us Logins!!!

(screw Messina, he's a douche)

-c

MW: 'own' ('d)

i didnt know that when i posted; looks like i owe you an apology, sorry TT.

to the idiot posting under TT's name
does your mommie know you are using her computer ?

"And again, that was a left winger who posted under my name."

Those dirty left wingers.

{irony filter}

@ChrissyOne

I loved what you said to a "ChrissyTwo" the other day !
Almost messed up another keyboard

uhhh that was you, wasn't it ?

Indeed. =)

Im starting to learn to put the coffee cup down
when I happen upon one of your posts, Chrissy

I put my beer down when I pass a cop.

No problem, head.

And Chrissy, that wasn't a swipe at all libs, but you know that is who hijacks my name, just as it is probably a neocon using yours.

small mindedness comes in many packages-and usually HAS small packages.....

One of these days someone should throw a party inviting all the regular posters here at MDN, and Chrissy.. you would double as the guest of honor ...
(as well as the entertainment !!) lol

(Hey Sharks won tonite)

@Towertone

Are you running down the liberals again?

I have never heard you distance yourself from the neocons in the white house.

Check this out - even you will be amused...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtyI71YVAmo

Seems to me like I need purchase some sahres of HPQ while it's still on the cheap, in addition to more AAPL (moreso for the iPhone and continued iPod growth)... after all, seems that the PC market is still flourishing and the Macs are doing better than ever. Why not own AAPL and the best of breed PC maker HPQ? Hmmmm...

Clarity - perhaps you should change your screen name...

"3. The 5% market share for Apple computer is for Q1 2007 only, not total market share."

So what is Apple's total market share if not 5%?

Oi Vay!

Mia culpa if that wasn't you, TT.

Joy to the World!

Don't forget that Apple has -an exact- 100% market share for the recognised best operating system available today - OSX.

...and it's growing like Japanese Knotweed.

None of the rest matters to my mind.