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05/11/2007, 10:55am, EDT
Friday, May 11th
Apple seizes 9.9% of U.S. retail laptop sales
Apple notebook retail sales in the month of March reached 9.9 percent in the U.S. even as the company's desktop Mac retail sales ranked fifth overall with 7.7 percent of sales, according to Bloomberg. The Cupertino-based company likely increased sales via its "Get a Mac" ad campaign alongside new Intel-based Macs that can run Microsoft Windows via Boot Camp beta software. Apple reported during its quarterly financial results in April that half of customers who purchase Macs from its retail stores had not previously owned a Mac, and that its retail efforts were much more lucrative than anticipated. Apple's retail laptop share beat out Compaq (which garnered 8.5 percent of sales in March) but still trails Gateway, which accounted for 13 percent of notebooks sold.
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go AAPL go!
On the other hand, since Dell is not even represented (online/mail order only), numbers are quite meaningless.
Still, even if it IS 10%, it will continue to grow even faster, once Vista rush is gone. Next school year, I'm confident one in 8 laptops will have the apple logo on the lid.
PC: And I'm a PC
Mac: Hey PC what are you doing?
PC: Oh I'm hemorrhaging money (dollar bills floating out of PC's pockets.) Wait, why is the money floating over to you?
Mac: Oh, well you know Apple just gained 9% of the lapton market.
PC: I, I, oh dear…
Mac: PC what's happening?
PC: I think I'm about to pass out. Call a doctor…umph!
Um - I'm surrounded by PC folks throughout the building I work in_ Let's say 90% of the folks around me are running Winodws_ I know of maybe 5 or 6 out of 200+ folks that have switched over to Vista_ Everyone else is still on XP_
Diehard IT guys I've known for years are cautioning against switching to Vista_
HP [hewlett-packard] has sent out a company wide message about NOT transitioning to Vista at this time_
Several Government Agenies [FDOT] have made statements in regards to NOT migrating to Vista at this time_
So who's rushing to Vista ? The employees of DELL and Microsoft ?
If MS is counting on people to VOLUNTARILY upgrade to Vista... I think they are going to be very disappointed.