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Analyst: Mac Sales Grew Over 100% In January
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If this is true, it's down to Microsoft's Vista marketing, which is hilarious when you think about it. Microsoft have spent a fortune advertising Vista, so much that every newspaper and TV news programme has covered it, all mentioning at some point that "Vista is playing catchup with Apple's Mac OSX".
So consumers have been bombarded by talk of Macs and their superiority, and Microsoft have footed the bill. Brilliant
So consumers have been bombarded by talk of Macs and their superiority, and Microsoft have footed the bill. Brilliant
Does anyone remember what the Mac sales in January last year in that Year over Year. I just know this was in the midst of the Intel transition, so sales weren't where they would have been otherwise (though I think the year over year was still positive).
What are you smoking? Apple is spending lots of cash on Macintosh and Mac OS X R&D. Don't worry...and those nice revenue from mac purchase, will mostly go right into the R&D for iphone, ipod,TV, etc etc... there aren't gonna be much left for mac R&D
The sales figures are never quoted per month, only quarterly. There was a dip from 1.25m in Q4 2005 to 1.1m in Q1 2006 - http://www.systemshootouts.org/mac_sales.html
In five of the previous seven years there was a dip in sales in Q1 compared to the previous Q4 and only a small rise the other two years. So if there is a large jump in sales this quarter, it goes against the normal pattern. A 100% increase, if it occurs throughout the quarter, would mean 2.2m sales this quarter.
Nice as that sounds, I'm one of the skeptics.
Edit: the next financial reports, which always includes the real sales figures, will be mid-April.
That tipping point will never come, but it's not really about everyone using Macs. If enough people buy Macs (~10% I think), the Web and all sorts of software will very quickly start to go open standards rather than using Microsoft proprietary technologies that only work in Windows. Finally it won't matter which OS you use, you'll have real choice. Microsoft aren't going to disappear but they'll actually have to start working to keep their customers as Apple have to now, and Linux will become a real possibility for businesses.
If you think what happened to Intel when AMD came along, there was this sudden rush of advancement, which AMD then rushed to match and surpass. Imagine if that happens in software too.
I'm a statistic
Probably a lot of people like me, who were waiting for MW'07 to see if new machines would be released. There weren't any so I went ahead and bought the MBP that I'd been eying for a while now.
Probably a lot of people like me, who were waiting for MW'07 to see if new machines would be released. There weren't any so I went ahead and bought the MBP that I'd been eying for a while now.
This is really great for Apple, but it is kinda sad that our once exclusive group is moving to the mainstream. Macs are losing their uniqueness.
Which is actually quite bad when you consider...
1. This is a period of low sales post-holiday season.
2. Everybody was "supposed" to be waiting for Vista, but those numbers say that they have decided not to bite.
67% of a small number is still a small number
I hate that.
I've always admired Apple's cult status, and am myself easily drawn into it all. But at the end of the day Apple is a global business, their only interest in you is your money.
Steve Jobs is the only unique thing about Macs/Apple, his hippy values have a huge impact on the products they make and we all enjoy using, but don't ever forget that his first priority is the shareholders.
Anyway, good for Apple, it shouldn't surprise anyone considering just how good the macbook product line is. When will they reach 5%?
Edit: Looking at your name, I take it you were being ironic! Oh well, hard to tell around here sometimes.
The Apple notebook market share is somewhere near 12% (from what I recall... The keynote from WWDC last year said it was at 12%, I wouldn't be surprised if it's grown since then...
100 million Ipod owners already know first hand how great Apple products are.
In two years time add another 100million + 20-30 million iPhone users + 20-50million existing mac users and you have approaching 300 million potential mac buyers...at this point the rest of the world is going to go 'hey what's this 'mac' thing ?' and WHOOSH - snowball...exponential growth...
Amazing...
In two years time add another 100million + 20-30 million iPhone users + 20-50million existing mac users and you have approaching 300 million potential mac buyers...at this point the rest of the world is going to go 'hey what's this 'mac' thing ?' and WHOOSH - snowball...exponential growth...
Amazing...
"You are about to buy a Macintosh that is easier to use, beautifully designed, bundled with excellent programs, and no worries of viruses or being immediately outdated..
Deny or allow..."
Deny or allow..."
Where should the cut off of old and new Mac'ers fall?
... we should start our own group.
>> You'd have expected a dip as people delayed their Mac purchase until 10.5 is released.
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Not to mention the thousands of
Adobe fans waiting for a Uni CS3
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Not to mention the thousands of
Adobe fans waiting for a Uni CS3
Yeah!
Not that its a competition, but people like us should get comission from Apple hehe. I have converted 12 indivuals that would have otherwise for sure gotten PCs and get this....my entire company where I work is now switching the whole company over to Macs because of me I swear I'm not exagerating. I'v never been happier That makes a total with my work of about litterally 60 "Switchers" that would not have joined the Apple family otherwise!
Anybody else had success stories like this? I'd love to hear! I genuinely get happy and excited when people switch hehe!
very good
i'm responsible for two of those purchases though, and i've converted a few friends over
Not that its a competition, but people like us should get comission from Apple
hehe. I have converted 12 indivuals that would have otherwise for sure gotten PCs and get this....my entire company where I work is now switching the whole company over to Macs because of me I swear I'm not exagerating. I'v never been happier That makes a total with my work of about litterally 60 "Switchers" that would not have joined the Apple family otherwise!Anybody else had success stories like this? I'd love to hear!
I genuinely get happy and excited when people switch hehe!If this is true, it's down to Microsoft's Vista marketing, which is hilarious when you think about it. Microsoft have spent a fortune advertising Vista, so much that every newspaper and TV news programme has covered it, all mentioning at some point that "Vista is playing catchup with Apple's Mac OSX".
So consumers have been bombarded by talk of Macs and their superiority, and Microsoft have footed the bill. Brilliant
I think your totally right on this
Its awesome heheand those nice revenue from mac purchase, will mostly go right into the R&D for iphone, ipod,
Read my sig. After you have read it, ponder this for a while: In the PPC-era, Mac was stagant. Improvements were few and far between, you were lucky to get few more megaherz our of the CPU, while it was still crippled by that uber-slow 166Mhz bus. Today Apple has just finished a major architecture-transition in ahead of schedule. The machines have been constantly upgraded, with performance going up, new features being added and prices coming down, and new versions of the key pieces of software are on their way.
And we still have whiners. It just boggles the mind.