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Mac Market Share Over 7% In December

TheRuggedLion said:
Funniest post of the year, so far. Lmao thanks for the laugh :D
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I'm glad someone enjoyed that. :D

I've posted the Debbie Downer pic before and probably will do it again. I always think of MacRumors as a source of fun and frivolous news tidbits and rumors, but it always seems that, no matter how cool a given rumor is, there's someone coming along to spoil the fun by being way too serious.

"Enjoy your computers while children are starving in third world countries." Wah-waaaaah... :rolleyes:
 
until i can buy apple software in normal retailers around the corner and don't have to go to special apple retailers who is across the town besides a sex toy shop (i'm not making this up... actual around the corner there is even a second one :rolleyes:) the market share is still too small
 
takao said:
until i can buy apple software in normal retailers around the corner and don't have to go to special apple retailers who is across the town besides a sex toy shop (i'm not making this up... actual around the corner there is even a second one :rolleyes:) the market share is still too small
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My of my Windows friends won't even think of switching to a Mac because of the incompatibility of the Mac with free Windows copies of programs from their Windows friends. In effect, they would have to buy their own programs rather than borrow/share programs from/with their friends. Not enough Mac friends around to start a sharing program.
 
IMO, the real "critical mass" of market share is the point at which the momentum of most major third-party developers results in Mac releases with little to no disparity, schedule-wise or feature-wise, with their Windows counterparts. The companies to watch for this would be ones like Intuit (Quicken), Autodesk (Maya), NewTek (LightWave), etc. (Right now the only ones within shouting distance of equivalence are Adobe and Blizzard.) It will take a lot more than just barely hitting double-digits for this to be the case.
 
takao said:
until i can buy apple software in normal retailers around the corner and don't have to go to special apple retailers who is across the town besides a sex toy shop (i'm not making this up... actual around the corner there is even a second one :rolleyes:) the market share is still too small
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You leave your house to buy software?
 
Is it higher than 7% ????

Does anyone here know, if Macs running MS Windows, is taken in consideration in the "Net Applications report"?

If not, the Mac Hardware numbers (not OS's) could be even higher. Hmm even better :rolleyes:

Ohh my goodness. Did a litttle investigating myself and look what they posted at the Net applications web site:
"Another interesting aspect of this data is that these numbers do not include visitors using Windows on Mac hardware via Boot Camp or other program. Therefore, these numbers actually understate the market share for the Mac. We have no way of telling by how much, however."

And they have posted numbers for the last days of December where Mac's are up to 8.01% and iPhone to 0.18%
 
Shameless plug but definitely fits the spirit...

We recently did an event for designers and had a ton of buttons made up as giveaways. "PCs are the devil"

It's so fun to see them now on people's bags, cubes and I've even seen one mounted to a table tent on the desk of a copyright lawyers office. They switched over completely to mac in his firm.

I gave some to my vet's office who also just converted their entire office over to macs.

They all went so fast, but we found an extra box. I put them up on ebay to help recoup some of the cost and spread them outside of our city. We called it - "Wear what everyone is thinking"

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260200409867&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=016

24" intel imac - aluminum
2.4 GHZ - 2 GB RAM- 320 GB int. 320 GB FW - 500 GB USB 2.0
Elgato TV HYBRID + Elgato Turbo 64
(Lovin' it)
 
Mac market share UNDER 3% actually

TheSpecialist said:
I notice Windows fanboys browse this site too, as why the hell would someone rate this news negative. Shoo, fanboys!
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Ok: I'll bite. The reported study relates to web browsing, not hardware sales. Apple today reported sales of 2.3 million Mac's in the last quarter of 2007. That gave them less than a 3% market share.

vendor millions share
HP 14.695 19.0%
Dell 11.314 14.6%
Acer 7.394 9.6%
Lenovo 5.826 7.5%
Toshiba 3.029 3.9%
Others 35.122 45.4%
Total 77.378 100.0%

Sources:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/01/17/worldwide-pc-shipments-up-155-in-4q07
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/t...em&ex=1201150800&en=dc982cb0e2ef3100&ei=5087
 
sjhart said:
Ok: I'll bite. The reported study relates to web browsing, not hardware sales. Apple today reported sales of 2.3 million Mac's in the last quarter of 2007. That gave them less than a 3% market share.

vendor millions share
HP 14.695 19.0%
Dell 11.314 14.6%
Acer 7.394 9.6%
Lenovo 5.826 7.5%
Toshiba 3.029 3.9%
Others 35.122 45.4%
Total 77.378 100.0%

Sources:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/01/17/worldwide-pc-shipments-up-155-in-4q07
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/t...em&ex=1201150800&en=dc982cb0e2ef3100&ei=5087
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Those are worldwide numbers, right? I think that this article - and the 7% - refers to U.S. numbers only :) Everyone knows that the worldwide percentage is drastically lower than the U.S. marketshare!
 
Chrispy88 said:
Here, this article says that Apple reached 5.7% U.S. market share in 4Q 2007 (which is July-September):

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/17/technology/pc.php

I'm guessing that they might've broken the 6% barrier in 1Q 2008!
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A "guess" that certainly would be, since there is not enough information to predict future market share at all. This is the only sentence about Apple in the entire article:

Sales of computers from Apple surged 30.9 percent in the fourth quarter, giving the company 5.7 percent of the U.S. market.​

Sales surged 31%, resulting in 5.7% market share. So how much was the market share before the surge? If you don't know that, you have no point of reference and no way of telling how much market share was increased by the new sales. Maybe those sales only raised overall usage .5%.
 
I have conflicted emotions on this; I have been a mac fanatic since the early 90's and was happy to be part of the 'club' But now the 'others are starding to buy them, well I just don't know any more.....
 
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