Gartner: Apple At 6.1% U.S. Market Share, Up 1.5% From Last Year

[lmalave]

Well my 1300 shares will become 2600 in less than an year. Apple will keep going up and up as long the economy does not tank.

Showoff

You're basically bragging that you have $100K in Apple stock. Nice!!!! Your faith is being rewarded handsomely...

 

[Dunepilot]

Does anyone know their marketshare in terms of computers in use?

It's not an exact science, but these days you can make a safe assumption that most computers are connected to the internet, so info such as the browser usage on a site like Google can give some indication of number of machines in use

 

[lmalave]

Woohoo!! This is the first time I can remember that Apple has had over 5% market share!

I think they got briefly back up to 8% or so after the initial launch of the iMac. Nice to see them climbing back up to that range. I hope they break 10% within a couple of years, because I think that is right about at the critical mass where a lot more software developers will consider developing an OS X version of their product.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Showoff

You're basically bragging that you have $100K in Apple stock. Nice!!!! Your faith is being rewarded handsomely...

Two can play at that game. I still have the 400 shares I bought in 1997.

Do the math.

 

[RichP]

Two can play at that game. I still have the 400 shares I bought in 1997.

Do the math.

Damn! Can only wonder what it cost back then..those were dark days back then...

 

[IlluminatedSage]

this is really the start of good things for apple.

if they really want to get more marketshare. Introduce more models.

ie
1- a midsized tower. to offer more power and upgradability than iMac or mac mini, and less than Mac Pro. This is part of reason why less desktop models are being sold than laptops.

2- Slim Macbook

3- iPhone (ipod phone/pda)

4- Embrace HDTV with new lines of HDTV compliant monitors (HDCP) and blu-ray or hd dvd & add hdcp compliant videocards also. Also sell HD content via itunes.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

this is really the start of good things for apple.

if they really want to get more marketshare. Introduce more models.

ie
1- a midsized tower. to offer more power and upgradability than iMac or mac mini, and less than Mac Pro. This is part of reason why less desktop models are being sold than laptops.

2- Slim Macbook

3- iPhone (ipod phone/pda)

4- Embrace HDTV with new lines of HDTV compliant monitors (HDCP) and blu-ray or hd dvd & add hdcp compliant videocards also. Also sell HD content via itunes.

1. Midsized tower - won't happen. If you want to upgrade go Mac Pro, if you want simplicity go iMac.
2. Slim MacBook? Don't you mean tiny MacBook? Apple could quite easily make the iPhone Smartphone and the MacBook Nano one and the same.
3. iPhone - Jan
4. A number of the moniters already play HD quality - I'm actually waiting for Apple to make a HD TV, cause it will happen, it will probably have the iTV built in too!!

 

[steelfist]

and then there will be numerous viruses for the mac that will be unleashed into the wild.

and then norton will have numerous profits from mac viruses, along with windows viruses.


the two bad news i'm worried most from this.

aside from that, means more games , and software support along with hardware support should be increasing as well which are good.


it seems that most of the profits came from college students and travelers, as hh has noted. i thought the imac had strong sales, but it's easy to see why the notebook familly has such good sales.

oh, and i hope the laptops won't get any thinner. apple's having a big problem with cooling their laptops already. it's not worth having so much problems by cutting a few mms off the height.

 

[GeoffRuth]

Put down the crack pipe

Why on earth would anyone mark this as negative, unless they were a troll?

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Two can play at that game. I still have the 400 shares I bought in 1997.

Do the math.

I bought 4600 shares in 1997, do that math

My last comment was a complete fabrication!!

 

[Queso]

Two can play at that game. I still have the 400 shares I bought in 1997.

Do the math.

400 pre-splits shares?

My God, man. That's some profit!!

 

[IJ Reilly]

Damn! Can only wonder what it cost back then..those were dark days back then...

I've bought and sold quite a bit of AAPL over the years since, but always held onto my original stake. My cost basis is around $4 a share. Now I can't afford to sell it!

 

[mozmac]

Seriously...Gateway still sells computers? As I walk through campus I see: Dell, Dell, Mac, Dell, HP, Mac, Mac, HP, Dell...wait, what's that? Oh, one Gateway. Yeah, who buys Gateway computers anymore? I appreciate Apple passing them up soon.

 

[lmalave]

Two can play at that game. I still have the 400 shares I bought in 1997.

Do the math.

Split twice so that's 1600 shares now. $125K - you got him beat

 

[AlmostThere]

I would love to know what the worldwide figure is for Apple market percentage. I know it says here that its not in the top 5, hence no available data, but it would be interesting to see, particularly here in the UK, as the amount of people I know who have switched in the last year has been huge!!

Not just for interest though - if Apple do not take a firm presence in the rapidly developing (India, China) countries now, they may well face the same uphill battle against Windows they have been fighting for the past whatever years in the US.

 

[mozmac]

I've bought and sold quite a bit of AAPL over the years since, but always held onto my original stake. My cost basis is around $4 a share. Now I can't afford to sell it!

I was 14 back in 1997 when AAPL was sitting around $12. I told my parents and my uncle to dump tons of money into it because it was going up. They didn't really listen to me. My parents did put a little in by buying two shares for each of us kids (6 in total) for Christmas. Since then they've split a few times and are now sitting at around $80. I'm loving it. I've bought more since, but like you, I'm still holding onto my original stake, which is at 6 shares now, thanks to splits.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Split twice so that's 1600 shares now. $125K - you got him beat

So you only payed $1600 for them, and now they're worth $125,000. You legend!! Good luck..

 

[IJ Reilly]

400 pre-splits shares?

My God, man. That's some profit!!

I believe that translates roughly into a 1,900% return on investment.

I could tell, my broker thought I was certifiable when I put in the buy orders. BTW, he didn't have a computer at home in those days. Now he's got an iMac.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

I believe that translates roughly into a 1,900% return on investment.

I could tell, my broker thought I was certifiable when I put in the buy orders. BTW, he didn't have a computer at home in those days. Now he's got an iMac.

 

[IJ Reilly]

So you only payed $1600 for them, and now they're worth $125,000. You legend!! Good luck..

No, my cost basis is closer to $6,400.00. I paid an average of $16/share, before the two splits. Lest we forget, there were a lot of dark times between then and now. When it dropped 50% overnight on that terrible day in September 2000, I thought I was going to be physically ill. It took nerve to hang on through these moments, or complete idiocy. Your choice. Either way, it worked out.

 

[Marx55]

Check out this to boost Mac OS X market share:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39284186,00.htm

If Apple does it, Windows (read M$) will be out of business in three years!

 

[mixgrafix]

11500 shares when it was at 8.18 on November 2nd, 2002

My retail business was closing due to issues in the travel industry, and I decided to purchase Apple stock at that time. I had lost close to 500,000k in my store closing, and I was at the lowest point of my life. I bought the original iPod the day that it came out, and everyone for a year told me how they had loved it. I had always loved Apple, and I put my faith in Steve Jobs little iPod. Everyone was amazed at the size and incredible fidelity that it had. I knew that this would pay off one day. Everyone was laughing at me when I did this, including my broker. He told me that I should have invested in Dell because they were on the way up.

Let's do this math.

Original Investment - $94,070.00 for 11,500 shares

11,500 x 2 after the split last summer = 23,000 shares

23,000 x 78.71 at todays rate = $1,810,330.00

$1,810,330 - $94,070.00 = $1,716,260.00 stock worth.

I have not sold one share. Now who is laughing. Thank you iPod.

 

[tk421]

Check out this to boost Mac OS X market share:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39284186,00.htm

If Apple does it, Windows (read M$) will be out of business in three years!

That idea is certainly not new. It's been debated lots of times on this site, and it's not that simple. Even the article itself doesn't say Microsoft will be out of business. It says Apple market share could be 20%.

One of the problems with being software-only is that Apple makes a lot of money from their hardware. Another problem is that they have less control over the product. If they can't control the hardware, the software will face more issues.

Anyway, I doubt they'd license the OS, and I wouldn't want them to.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Yikes, you win.

 

[kresh]

Check out this to boost Mac OS X market share:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39284186,00.htm

If Apple does it, Windows (read M$) will be out of business in three years!

What these guys forget, and everyone else who proposes this, is the fact that OS X solely exists to sell Apple's hardware and not the other way around.

iLife, iWork, OS X, Pro Apps all have the single purpose of selling hardware. Apple is a hardware company by choice, it's what they want to do.

They are not a software house and I can't see them trading away their hardware business to gain OS X marketshare. It's not not what Apple is all about.