Mac Market Share Update

[ictiosapiens]

The stores are about brand recognition more than anything else. As I said before, even without a whisper of Vista on the horizon, Wintel sales are getting increasingly stronger; I really don't see the situation changing much when (if?) Vista is actually released.

I do find it a bit odd that Dell have decicded to open stores ... but you can't actually buy machines there. Didn't they learn anything from the Gateway fiasco?

Well, you said yourself that the stores are about brand recognition(I do believe that if you want more brand recognition, that means you want to get your products to more custumers thus increasing your market share, but thats just me)

Don't get me wrong, I find completely ridiculous the idea of opening a store that has no products for sale... You might just call it a Showroom...

 

[rayz]

Well, you said yourself that the stores are about brand recognition(I do believe that if you want more brand recognition, that means you want to get your products to more custumers thus increasing your market share, but thats just me)

It does not mean that at all ....

Increasing sales is fine, but when the rest of the PC market is outpacing you, then you market share is not going to increase. Apple knows this.
If they wanted to increase marketshare, then they would slash prices to the bone, take the hit and sit back as the profits hit the skids, even as their market share rises (possibly). How would that help Apple in the long term?
Increased sales is not the same as increasing market share; not by a long shot. Apple needs to increase sales and not get hung up on the WinTel sales which, as a whole, will always outpace them

Don't get me wrong, I find completely ridiculous the idea of opening a store that has no products for sale... You might just call it a Showroom...

Well, I go to a car showroom .. I can still leave with a car.

 

[rayz]

Google figures

It's a shame that Google doesn't publish their view on installed base anymore. The last set of figures came from 2004, which does not tell us how things stand now, but they do suggest that a Mac installed base of 16%, is highly unlikely.

http://www.pegasus3d.com/osshare.html

And of course there is the assumption that most people who use the internet, will regularly use Google ....

 

[inkswamp]

It's a shame that Google doesn't publish their view on installed base anymore.

Yeah, but those kinds of numbers are inherently flawed anyway. A lot of Mac users work in places where they have to use Windows. If you surf the Web at work, you're seen as a "Windows user."

 

[rayz]

Yeah, but those kinds of numbers are inherently flawed anyway. A lot of Mac users work in places where they have to use Windows. If you surf the Web at work, you're seen as a "Windows user."

Er .. if you're using Windows, then you ARE a Windows user ...

You just happen to show up in two installed bases.

 

[spacehog371]

I'd like to see apple gain 20 percent market share... that'll prolly never happen though.