And is what keeps the Anti-trust people at bay IMHO... the share of the market that MacOS has is not large enough to get them interested.
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Apple's Q2 2017 MacBook Sales Increase 17 Percent Over the Previous Quarter
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Surface sales sinking and Mac laptops soaring.
Huge FAIL of The Verge reviewers and MR forum vocal minorities.
Huge FAIL of The Verge reviewers and MR forum vocal minorities.
I can see that we're going to be split into 2 camps here:
Apple gained marketshare so the whiners were wrong and the new Macs are the best ever...
or
Everyone else gained marketshare so Apple still failed.
Apple gaining 1% marketshare from last quarter is great, no question, as it is a niche product.
But make no mistake, still 90% of the market chose something else last quarter, and the one before, and the one before...
Apple gained marketshare so the whiners were wrong and the new Macs are the best ever...
or
Everyone else gained marketshare so Apple still failed.
Apple gaining 1% marketshare from last quarter is great, no question, as it is a niche product.
But make no mistake, still 90% of the market chose something else last quarter, and the one before, and the one before...
If you don't like the Touch Bar, I understand, but don't deliberately mislabel it. It works with every default app in macOS - including the Terminal! It's hardly completely consumer focused.
So now we're going to start calling non-Mac users stupid because they chose to use something that better fits their needs or budget?
Really??
My biggest problem with the MacBook Pro is price. Then again, the solution my brain pops up with is "Buy a retina MacBook and a powerful iMac!" ... probably cheaper to just buy the MacBook Pro!
They choose something else... in which market segment? In the segments Apple chooses to compete in? Hardly.
Apple is winning hands down in PCs, as it basically owns the only profitable market segment. A 1% market share increase, when the only segment Apple competes in is the high end, is huge in terms of revenue and profits.
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Turns out occasionally using an adapter isn't that big of a deal. Who would have thought..
No, we are talking about computers that cost 1000+ Eur and no one just buys those randomly. There has to be intent and a reason, whereas pc market is different story.
Sorry, Apple is losing in the segment they compete in, which is the segment (bundled in by the report) that includes all other PC manufacturers.
But as I indicated in a previous post, this doesn't mean that they're not profitable. It all depends on how you look at these things. From Apple's perspective, the quarter was a success. I said this and don't contest it.
But from an overall perspective, Apple has ALL the way to go. Most people are still choosing something else. Dell, Lenovo, and HP all gained more marketshare on the same quarter than Apple did. Dell gained almost DOUBLE. You can't cherry pick what's reported.
So, as I said before, Apple did good, but others did better.
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Hmm, I missed the part in the report that broke the numbers down like that.
How are you getting your numbers?
Seconded it is of very limited use.
Yep.
I do wonder how these figures would look if developers were allowed to develop for iOS end to end on Windows/Linux. Selling products to a captive audience shouldn't be cause for celebration.
They're probably in for another small explosion in sales if/when the Macbook takes over the Air's 999 slot, and the Air goes away in turn.
That's assuming they do that though. I'm not sure if that was the plan, or if they're just trying to push up average selling prices.
That's assuming they do that though. I'm not sure if that was the plan, or if they're just trying to push up average selling prices.
Microsoft killed themselves with the pricing.. their software is nowhere near macOS, even though they've improved it and tried to compensate with aesthetics & hardware paper specs, their products come out flawed and don't last.
Although if you consider that this MB model has just been upgraded and it's relatively new, numbers are still quite poor.
Although if you consider that this MB model has just been upgraded and it's relatively new, numbers are still quite poor.
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I bought one - my first MacBook ever, in fact. I came from owning Surfaces for the past few years and smiled every time I saw people complaining they only had 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports when I only had 1 USB-A and a mini display port.
I'm absolutely loving my MacBook and wish I'd switched a lot sooner.(First post!)
Congrats to Apple I guess. The machines look nice, but they are still 30-40% above the competition on the Windows side. As a user, I'd prefer a different focus than the touch bar, slimness and lack of ports. But I am just one user, and the only thing I can to is to get a Windows machine that has those things I want on my laptop.
I also severely dislikes that the machine with physical buttons, only has 128 gb storage and no upgradeability (?). That is not catering to your userbase imo.
I also severely dislikes that the machine with physical buttons, only has 128 gb storage and no upgradeability (?). That is not catering to your userbase imo.
Sounds like you should take your own advice, dude, and put the Apple pom-poms down.
The report shows what it shows: 10% Apple, 90% everyone else. Or more specifically, 69.9% for those that are beating Apple in marketshare.
Don't shoot the messenger because you didn't like the message.
Dam apple is to proud of a company. I secretly wanted the mac sales to go down that way apple knows we consumers ain't taking their **** with under spec, overpriced laptops. Oh well, I'll try again next year.
Really wanted to replace my 2011 Mbps but I think I'll just change the battery and make it last another year
Really wanted to replace my 2011 Mbps but I think I'll just change the battery and make it last another year
Current laptops are great, i don't know what's the big deal.
It does .. it did. It was silly emoji bar or one USB-what port instead of 4, and even worse performance. I got the emoji bar and the feel-less keyboard with arrow keys the size of rice grains. The current macbook pros are awful, they compromise on every facet of usability and I wish they'd never made them and I wish my old MBP hadn't failed to the point it had to be replaced. I have never bought a worse Apple product than the touchbar MBP.
