Apple's Share of U.S. PC Market Leaps to 12.9% in 3Q 2011

[HiRez]

Wow, that's a crazy impressive increase. A few percent doesn't sound like much, but that represents a huge increase in machines shipped. And look how they've more than tripled market share since just 2006.

iCloud is going to help bring in even more people to the Apple ecosystem, and make it a more difficult decision to leave. Are they going to give up having their mail, music, videos, contacts, photos, and files synced across their phones, tablets, desktops, laptops, and AppleTVs once they have it? No, I don't think so.

 

[alent1234]

When you consider the almost non existent Apple presence in the corporate market, these figures are really impressive. 12.5% of the overall PC market would represent a really big slab of the consumer market. No doubt Apple would already be number one there.

At least in the us the corporate market is starting to go to people bringing their own computer to work

 

[Routerninja]

When you consider the almost non existent Apple presence in the corporate market, these figures are really impressive. 12.5% of the overall PC market would represent a really big slab of the consumer market. No doubt Apple would already be number one there.

I've seen a fair number of IT Supported macs at my work, and no, I don't work in graphic design, these are engineers using them, not just execs wanting to look cool. So don't be surprised if you see more and more macs in the corporate world.

 

[mazz0]

When you consider the almost non existent Apple presence in the corporate market, these figures are really impressive. 12.5% of the overall PC market would represent a really big slab of the consumer market. No doubt Apple would already be number one there.

Exactly. You do see some Macs in business, but it's a tiny number compared to the number of Windows (XP) PCs.

I'd like to see the consumer figures, and the laptop figures.

 

[Hakone]

As long as Apple is maintaining supply to meet demand and keeping a high profit margin per unit sold, they'll stay happy campers. I don't think they're gunning for #1 in units sold, right?

 

[Mr. Gates]

Does this include iPads ?

If so, these numbers are meaningless.

I don't care haw anyone wants to rationalize it; an iPad is not a PC.

And You just know they did

 

[wovel]

1)25% is very, very far away in my opinion. Probably 2015 at the very earliest with the wind blowing downhill.

2)Malware/viruses/etc already exist on the Mac...and that's at around 10% market share. I would say it's going to continue forever unless Mac share drops below 10%. The coders out there aren't going to wait till Mac hits 25%.


I congratulate Apple on this milestone! I do think it will be very hard for them to crack the 20% milestone unless the Mac prices drop....Apple will have a very tough time convincing the remainder of the market to spend a lot more money on "a computer"...especially considering so much of what is done "on a computer" is internet/web browser related for the common Joe Shmoe.

Malware as in Trojan's yes. I am not aware of any Viruses on the Mac. (self propogating malware to keep it simple).

 

[Sequin]

That's because their laptops are fantastic. Their desktops on the other hand....

 

[Vendrazi]

Does this include iPads ?

If so, these numbers are meaningless.

Nope, Gartner does not count iPads as PCs.

Are the numbers still meaningless?

 

[wovel]

Still wondering where Tim got his numbers from...

Tim has a lot of numbers...

 

[Mr. Gates]

Nope, Gartner does not count iPads as PCs.

Are the numbers still meaningless?

If that's the case, then no !

Very impressive !

Good Job Apple.

 

[wovel]

Nope, Gartner does not count iPads as PCs.

Are the numbers still meaningless?

No, but he really, really, super duper wants them to be.

 

[djrod]

Surely HP will continue in the computer market. That's a lot of PCs.

What matters here is profits, not the overall number of computers sold

 

[gnasher729]

Does this include iPads ?

If so, these numbers are meaningless.

I don't care haw anyone wants to rationalize it; an iPad is not a PC.

And You just know they did

Come on, it's 2.3 million devices in a quarter in the US.
Apple is estimated to sell about 12 million iPads this quarter (world wide).

 

[MacNewsFix]

If and when Apple hits 25% market share for the personal computer sector I wonder if we'll see a huge increase in malware and viruses on the Mac. That's my biggest concern about an ever increasing market share.

Makes a great argument for the Mac App Store. Every time, I see an update notice from Adobe, I get the chills (and this started before the recent trojans specifically targeting OS X).

Speaking of Adobe, I wish Acrobat Reader was in the App Store. While I mainly use Preview and PDFPen, some services we are required to use mandate their own proprietary Acrobat files that won't work in either. It would be easier to tell people to just open the Mac App Store and run an update rather then having to go to Adobe.com and download the latest version on each machine or pass the installer around the network and contend with questions from computer novices afraid they'll nuke their machines during install. (Sorry, my inner Nick Burns is rearing its ugly head. )

 

[saviour]

Very impressive for both Apple and HP. Why on Earth would HP want to ditch PCs with 1/4 of the market and 15% annual growth (?). Makes no sense.
Their numbers are imo even more impressive than Apple's, considering they own a large chunk of the business world.

 

[kcswanko]

windows still kicking butt

Good thing Apple is now know for their iOS devices. I have a feeling once WIndows 8 comes out that market share may go down for Apple for iMAC's.

but at the same time I feel like the PC market is dying anyway so Apple should be on top .

 

[macrumorsuser10]

The real question is how much longer this market will really matter.

Apple will not give up on the desktop market for the simple fact that software engineers need a desktop Mac to write iOS software!

 

[Fraaaa]

Does this include iPads ?

If so, these numbers are meaningless.

I don't care haw anyone wants to rationalize it; an iPad is not a PC.

And You just know they did

Would it matter if the other manufacturer will include their tablets too?

 

[TMay]

Very impressive for both Apple and HP. Why on Earth would HP want to ditch PCs with 1/4 of the market and 15% annual growth (?). Makes no sense.
Their numbers are imo even more impressive than Apple's, considering they own a large chunk of the business world.

I have read recently that HP makes 1/7 per PC of what Apple makes per Mac, based on units sold and profit for PC's and Mac's.

I believe that HP will stay in PC's for the attach rate for corporate services, which is (probably) just behind printer consumables for profitability.

 

[gnasher729]

Just a remark: Apple sales grew by about 400,000. Total sales grew by about 200,000. That means "everyone else" did actually shrink by 200,000.

 

[ericinboston]

12% Great progress!

I hear people all the time saying Macs have a 3% or 5% market share. Macs are becoming rapidly more popular though, the days of Macs having a 5% market share are long gone!

Well, Macs have been stuck at the 3-7% range for a very long time...like 1991 to 2008. Only in the past 3 years has it gone higher than 8%.

Personally I think Mac would have a lot more marketshare if they were less expensive. I'm not saying make $299 desktops...but starting price for a full desktop Mac system is $999 whereas starting price for a decent desktop PC is about $599 and a fabulous (tech specs) PC is about $999. No, I'm not trying to get into the endless debate of PC vs. Mac and price vs. price.

 

[Exhale]

Well, Macs have been stuck at the 3-7% range for a very long time...like 1991 to 2008. Only in the past 3 years has it gone higher than 8%.

And still applies on a worldwide scale I believe.

Of course, these numbers also don't seem to take into account the 'Custom' category - which is still the one that hosts both the fastest, and best quality systems. Admittedly, how to measure that is rather... tricky.

 

[SandynJosh]

This makes me quite interested to see what happens with HP's computer division. Dell's numbers are falling, and Apple's are rising... If HP's computer division collapses, Apple's in the running to be #1.

Now, how likely it is that HP's business falls apart I don't know, but it's not outside the realm of possibility depending on who takes it over...

If you think about it, Apple may be the only computer company to have been in the computer business from the 8 bit computer days. That Apple is even around when so many of its early peers have been long gone is an accomplishment in itself.

Even a lot of the 16 bit computer makers have disappeared or have sunk down into the "Other" category. Apple has even outlasted IBM's foray into the PC business. For Apple to be number three is just remarkable!

Regarding HP, I would have never guesses that they could have self-destructed to the extent they have... and I doubt it won't really matter who is the president, the board is really where the idiotic decisions are being made.

 

[Exhale]

If you think about it, Apple may be the only computer company to have been in the computer business from the 8 bit computer days. That Apple is even around when so many of its early peers have been long gone is an accomplishment in itself.

Both Jobs and Woz were employed by Hewlett Packard in the early days I believe. HP did computers even then. At the time though, HP wasn't in the consumer space - and they actually rejected the Apple I design Woz created; they weren't interested in consumer machines.

Naturally IBM is key here as well - though they haven't been a visible brandname in the consumer computer market for some time - that section is better known as Lenovo.