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Mac Government and Enterprise Sales Leap in 2Q 2010

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Fortune reports on a new research note from Needham analyst Charlie Wolf breaking down Apple's Mac sales by market segment for the second calendar quarter of 2010 and comparing that performance to the PC industry's as a whole. While Wolf found strong across-the-board growth for Apple, the company saw its strongest performance in government and business sales, where it far outpaced overall industry growth.
Among his findings:

- At 35%, Mac shipment growth in June easily exceeded the market's growth rate of 20.9%.
- Mac shipments grew 31.4% in the home market, topping the market's growth rate of 25.2%.
- At 49.8%, the Mac's growth in business was three times higher than the market's 15.7%.
- Mac shipments in government grew 200%, sixteen times faster than the market's 12.1%.
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In the business market, Wolf revealed Apple's strongest growth occurring among larger companies, with "large" and "very large" businesses seeing on the order of 100% growth, presumably on a year-over-year basis.


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In one final note, Wolf highlights Apple's growth in Europe, where strong iPhone adoption has created a halo effect that has helped Apple's unit share of the PC market to double and its revenue share to triple over the past six years, with most of that growth occurring over the last 2-3 years.

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I imagine at some point the student Apple users of the past five years are going to soon be in business or government in a position to request an Apple computer because that's what they're used to and self-trained in (the same reason that Windows became popular in the 1990s). With around 50% of students using Apple computers these days, what will things look like in 2020?
 
Hattig said:
I imagine at some point the student Apple users of the past five years are going to soon be in business or government in a position to request an Apple computer because that's what they're used to and self-trained in (the same reason that Windows became popular in the 1990s). With around 50% of students using Apple computers these days, what will things look like in 2020?
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You mean 50% of students in the U.S., right? :rolleyes:

On topic, this increase should help Mac OS X get more government and enterprise apps.
 
I hope Mac OS X doesn't die. It is really a better alternative to Windows. If Apple doesn't want to invest more into the Mac, they should sell it to Microsoft to focus on iOS and Snow Leopard could be Windows 8 from Microsoft.
 
I really hope that isn't "dollar share" and corrects for EUR:USD fluctuations. If not, that analyst should be fired.

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BornAgainMac said:
I hope Mac OS X doesn't die. It is really a better alternative to Windows. If Apple doesn't want to invest more into the Mac, they should sell it to Microsoft to focus on iOS and Snow Leopard could be Windows 8 from Microsoft.
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Why Microsoft? Why not its biggest competitor apart from Apple and a company that wont let it wither on the vine.

Red Hat would buy Mac OSX in a heart beat for the right price. Red Hat has successfully made any technology they invest in magnitudes better. Compare the SPICE protocol or KVM of old to now and see what I'm talking about.
 
BornAgainMac said:
I hope Mac OS X doesn't die. It is really a better alternative to Windows. If Apple doesn't want to invest more into the Mac, they should sell it to Microsoft to focus on iOS and Snow Leopard could be Windows 8 from Microsoft.
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LOL LOL LOL

Someone is smoking something. Think about this: Macs are the digital hub for iOS devices. Surely Apple is going to kill the digital hub. Not.
 
Go steve jobs...i wander how good this guy feels right now, one man did all this, Apple!!! and he didn't have a reality distortion field btw =P

im not a fan boy I just love all things great/Apple
 
Here in NY we all use NYC board of edu computers and from what I've seen they are all Dell. Even the chalthloic schools get there computers from the board of Ed. It would be awesome if we used macs but they are too expensive for the city budget. I feel in some areas of ny its better to have a regular Dell because in these areas the learning is more important than the type of computer u use. So life goes on..

But as for busneses it is great the efficiency is probably much better. The only thing is teaching the employees to use a Mac, because windows has been the most dominant. But as for that matter its much easier to adapt to a Mac I feel.

So in the next couple years let's hope we see a rise on macs, I wouldent mind personaly I love them but pc's for the general public are used because they are probably just as good for the regular user (like for just checking email,or the web) and are a much cheaper alternative. Even tho I feel a Mac does doo these things better it's not apparent to the general user. But don't forget they also look visually stunning in bolth design and the os itself. :D
 
Education Lagging?

Oh that's right....a lot of cash strapped school districts have to buy their computers out of the junkyard. And we all know what that "junk" is... :cool:
 
I run a decent-sized research group and everything is Apple-based.

The time saved with minimal maintenance pays for itself (each researcher costs at least 50€/hr) and I don't want them wasting time with ridiculous stuff (like reboots/virus scans/incompatibility issues/etc...)
 
interesting info... it'll be nice if there was some base to compare the growth to. (eg. what are the sales for each segment? or what are the % penetration in each segment).


P.
 
Once Apple gets the backend figured out I'd be willing to switch more of my users over. So far we are in the mid 2000's.
 
I wonder how much of this has to do with the iPad.

I am sure that government and big business are mainly concerned with security. A closed environment such as the iPad must be quite appealing.
 
And where would medical fall under? Government? Business? Education? Its relevant in all 3 areas. What kind of growth does that show? Well done nonetheless.
 
Yay... while Microsoft sales went up 10% of bazillions of computers, Apple sales went up 200% of diddly squat. C'mon, percentage charts?
 
acidfast7 said:
I run a decent-sized research group and everything is Apple-based.

The time saved with minimal maintenance pays for itself (each researcher costs at least 50€/hr) and I don't want them wasting time with ridiculous stuff (like reboots/virus scans/incompatibility issues/etc...)
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Damn it!

I just needed you to mention blue screens to get MacRumors forum cliché bingo. :mad:
 
Looks like government figured out that Macs are better for the security conscious user.

I don't know why business rely on Windows. We're so concerned about security, data protection etc, yet we rely on Windows. Getting out of the Windows environment is probably the best security choice a business/government can make. I run Zero anti-Virus and Malware protection across 15 Macs and have also had zero virus/malware problems. The Windows machines don't have that track record and they do run AV programs.

Hopefully this is a sign of change.
 
Man....I love mac a lot but I just get this feeling every time that when its popularity heightens, it is that much closer for a virus to come and make it windows.

200% shot increase for the govt? Virus in the making...?
 
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