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no sense wondering about 5%; the question is when will apple hit 10%

so now almost one out of twenty households is sane
hope apple can carry this through the hollidays!

Emil, These numbers were for total PC shipments in the USA, not just retail to homes. That is the amazing thing about these numbers, they include business shipments, too.

Wow! That IS good news!

and so it begins....

So much for the Osborne Effect that all the Chicken Littles (and the MS Mafia) predicted.

I hate to pooh-pooh the news, but even though the number are up 48% year over year, they are down from 4.5% last quarter. So that is somewhat disappointing to hear.

Nothing's the same anymore...

Sixth place, and Acer beat them. You guys don't need much reason to celebrate do ya?

Pete, your question has an answer. Never. In the "retail to homes" catagory Bud invented, they might already be there.

as EV1 claims, from 4.5% to 4.3%???
Anyone else know Apple's IDC share last quarter?
Jake

Bah, it's not even 5%.

Apple is dead, Mac is Dead... Microsoft rules the world..

(please note my name)

The problem is what the numbers don't include which is build it yourselfers. Which are the gamers and the Linux boxes etc. i.e, the geeks.

No need to worry about the Linux guys because we have a common enemy.

The continuing problem is the hardcore Windows geeks who drive the hardware technology. If the Macintels don't play Windows games we will still have Microsoft to deal with. Everything else can be done by GNU/Linux/UNIX.

Tell everyone NOT to buy Xbox360's. The new Xbox is a very significant threat and Microsoft knows it. Don't let MS into any more markets! Bad mouth the Xbox at every turn. Tell everyone to wait for the PS3.

Tell everyone how cool Linux is and how great free software is and how all the cool people are going to Linux.

After the duals hit next week, watch out!

Pssstt... hey, you misspelled your own name, Mr. Sarcasm.

And why didn't OSX spell-checker catch that? You got it turned off?

Apple having low marketshare is good for the people who buy Apple stufff right now, because Apple MUST put out the best stuff in order to remain competitive. Once they get really huge, 25% or more marketshare, they're going to get lazy like they did in the 90s, and start to do stoopid stuff that goes against the mission of Apple to begin with.

In the end, though, the Apple model will win because it is the best -it approaches the personal computer in the way it should be approached: an extremely useful home appliance, sort of like the refrigerator.

4.3% is better than 2%.

Hope they can maintan the momentum. Then when Dell, HP, Sony and Gateway exit the PC business due to their razor-thin margins Apple will be the only big-name vendor left. And they'll have Intel inside!

If US shipments of total PCs only grew by 11% and yet Apple managed to drop from 4.5% in the June quarter to 4.3% in this quarter...then Apple must have grown their US shipments by less than 11%...which royally SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

C'mon Apple time to include a coupon for a Mac inside every iPod box:

Buy a Shuffle get a $50 coupon for any Mac
Buy a Nano get a $100 coupon for any Mac
Buy a Shuffle get a $150 coupon for any Mac

Joe, 30% increase is great for already healthy company. dell went up almost nothing, hp went down gateway went up 23%. If apple keeps that up for a little over 3 years, they'll be at 10%. That sounds like a good reason to celebrate.

"What THE" said:
If US shipments of total PCs only grew by 11% and yet Apple managed to drop from 4.5% in the June quarter to 4.3% in this quarter...then Apple must have grown their US shipments by less than 11%...which royally SUCKS!!

Calm down and re-read the article:

"Full release with charts showing Apple's Mac with 4.3% U.S. market share for 3rd quarter 2005, up from 3.3% in 3rd quarter 2004"

So Apple grew it's market share by around 50% in the US.

Windows still rules the world in phones, banking, car manufacturers, etc. No matter how great Apple is doing. That Trio will have Windows on it

Bill

UNIX and MVS (OS/390) rule the banking world. All those desktops do is serve up a terminal emulator, even if they have written a pretty front end to hide it.

It is rumored that the operating system is dead. Two words: Hyper Terminal. Or is that one word?

Hmmmm, lets see. About two years ago Apple's marketshare was around 2.2%. Two years later, Apple DOUBLED it's marketshare. Now that is something to celebrate INDEED!!!!!

Just wait, after next quarter, when Apple makes 5.3% or whatever, it will start to make headlines. The headlines will help to change people's minds about Apple.

They really need to break out the home use vs. corporate use for computers. These numbers mean nothing to the consumer whatsoever. Apple probably has 10% market share on the consumer side, or more, but the large corporate beige box orders dilute the numbers.

Where is the offical "back from the dead counter"? Do I have to do it myself? The Mac Observer people just ignored my idea when I suggested it long ago.

Yeah, I too think that 5% is the turning point. In actuallity it means nothing, but it will affect the public perception of the Mac as a platform. But 10% is the magic number. A number which could be reached by late 2008 if Apple continues to grow at this rate.

Being that the Osborne Effect doesn't work in Steve's reality distortion feild, the MACTELs will only expand Apple's sales beyond it's current growth rate.

Buy a Mac and you get a PC too? That will double sales. What an easy sale that will be. FUD undermined the MAC and now it will bring it back from the dead. Nothing better to calm that fear than not having to choose.