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05/19/2003, 4:30pm, EDT
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Apple notebook sales growth outpace industry
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Macworld UK reports that Apple's notebook sales in the UK PC market exceeded general market growth in the first quarter 2003, growing 18% in both the commercial and consumer sectors: "Apple's UK notebook market share climbed from 2.8 per cent to 3.4 per cent year-on-year. In total across all vendors, notebook sales grew 14.7 per cent year-on-year, so Apple's growth in that market exceeded industry averages."
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They can write /another/ "insightful" story on Apple's twenty-six-year-history of going under.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
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Where are the Microsoft trolls when you need to rub their faces in it?
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They are basing marketshare solely on sales figures and ignoring the actual install base.
When they say that Apple's marketshare has dropped to 2.5% for that quarter then that mens that out of every 200 computers sold that quarter, 5 were Macs. They fail to indicate how many of the other 195 were Windows or how many were Linux. They do not mention how many were Dell, how many were IBM, how many were Sony, how many were HP/Compaq, how many were some brand we have never heard of, etc. Also out of all of the non-Mac computers sold, how many were purchased to replace PCs that are being thrown away? How many Mac buyers are replacing an older Mac and how many are replacing a PC? Are the older Macs beibg thrown away at the same rate that older PCs are?
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