12/13/2006, 12:50pm, EST
Wednesday, December 13th
Analyst: market share to rise in 2007
With worldwide Mac market share estimated at around 2.8 percent, Munster expects Apple's share in the PC market to grow to around 3.0 percent in the fourth quarter. "This would result in market share growth of approximately 1 percent throughout calendar year 2006, at an average market share for the year of around 2.5 percent," the analyst wrote. "Based on several catalysts, we believe Mac market share can grow by 1 percent again in calendar year 2007, ending the year at around 4 percent, with an average for the year of 3.5 percent."
Wall Street estimates currently assume Mac market share of 2.7 percent for calendar year 2007, but Piper Jaffray estimates that an increase in Mac market share to 3.5 percent would result in an upside to the Street calendar year 2007 earnings-per-share of $0.34 or 11.6 percent.
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you mean IF 10.5... Dont state rumors as facts.
But IF they do that (WINE project), and it runs smooth as silk... then expect a huge jump in marrket share. :)
Even if they could get some "WINE Turbo" to do that, I can't see that being a good idea. First, it'd be like shoving their thumb up Microsoft's fundamental orifice, and Steve Jobs isn't going to pull a Steve Irwin like that. Second, that'd be making the OS/2 mistake, and Jobs is too smart to torpedo native OS X application development that way.