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U.S. Mac Sales Grow 28.5% in Holiday Quarter, PC Market Suffers Worst Decline Ever [Updated]
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Im already waiting in line, want me to hold you a spot?
I'm the guy who's been camping in the tent at the front of the line since 2006.
Cannabalizing your usage and workflow maybe but certainly NOT sales. Did you read the article? That's an amazing jump and interesting to see Apple now bettering 50% of Dell's sales. Actually...unbelievable considering the vast majority of those Dells, including desktops are sub $1,000....<$500 in MANY cases. HP still plugging along well.
Tablets are it. For the vast majority of folks it's all they need these days. Email. Surfing. Reading. Buying and shopping. Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Photo and basic video manipulation. Media content and storage system. Constant, always on connectivity (FAST connectivity, LTE)---high resolution, low profile, lightweight all day battery devices. There isn't much more most of the general population needs. Especially as programmers focus themselves in the lucrative mobile and console markets...the box, wires, display and printer and mouse and , and and and. It's gone. Soon. Laptops and AIOs are replacing the traditional desktop with the exception of the tiny majority mentioned earlier. Hobbyists still willing to throw an extra 5-800 bucks on the latest chip set from nVidia, there'll be niche machine builders. But even corporations I can see going to a central core processing system with local workstations nothing more than a display and keyboard (if not a virtual keyboard). Storage. Processing. All done centrally.
I think the Haswell refresh to rMBP and the earlier Haswell update to MBA kicked up the buying spree. I bet the $1299 13" rMBP is the best selling Mac last year.
Thank God, I only bought 6 last month LOL
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It's called the $9,000 Mac Pro
If only that were true
I read the article but you may have missed a previous MR article that specifically shows PC's along with Mac's were down in sales due to tablets. And you may have missed Tim Cook's admission that even the iPad has cannibalized sales.
Funny how things are different from other analyst.
Apple drops to fourth place in U.S. PC shipments for Q4 2013 with 5.7% drop in shipped units
http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/09/apple...s-for-q4-2013-with-5-7-drop-in-shipped-units/
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The cloud .
Apple drops to fourth place in U.S. PC shipments for Q4 2013 with 5.7% drop in shipped units
http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/09/apple...s-for-q4-2013-with-5-7-drop-in-shipped-units/
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The cloud .
Not physically possible. Electrical signals only travel so fast over a network. The farther they have to go, the longer they take. Having as much computing power as possible as close to you as possible is always fastest.
Yes, if you lack those resources locally, and need them only temporarily, renting them externally is a valid option. If you need those resources all the time, have them in your workstation, or on a cluster on your local network, and you'll have a faster, cheaper time of it.
Obviously everyone lacks those resources locally. Whenever you are doing a search you are using thousands of computers of Google. That's precisely doing the computation off site. All of us do it, all the time.
I suppose you don't expect everyone to own datacenters just so they can skip a few miles of fiber?
You're so smart, I'm sure the minimum $2,999 Mac Pro which is aimed at professionals pushed up the mac sales 28.5%
Tim a Cook needs to hire you ASAP
I haven't seen the need to buy a new desktop in 4 years and while I want to replace my Macbook, Apple somehow manages took make each new generation less desirable.
It's called the 2012 and earlier Mac Pro… or just a regular iMac since it can play most games very well anyway, but I guess gaming PCs should have swappable GPUs (the Mac Pro does). Maybe some stuff like red LED lights too.
That's not the issue. The issue is that Mac OS X can't run some games (very few of which are actually good
), and Windows can run pretty much every game. Stems from the fact that DirectX is Windows-only or Wine-only.
That's a radical difference in opinion. Gartner says 2.2 million with 13.7% market share. IDC says 1.6 million with 9.3% market share. Somebody is way off the mark.
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I know, right? Thinner, faster, lighter, higher-res displays, longer battery life. Who wants all that junk?
Good news, indeed.....
so maybe the powers inside Apple pay attention and mantain the development of Apple hardware. Not to wait years and years to update a line as the new Mac Pro.
Portables are a good market for Apple to grow. Also, I think a revamped mini can help to boost the sales (maybe in the same price range). I am almost sure that the iToys also drives sales to the Mac camp, away from PCs.
Very hard to Apple to compete against the price point from Dell.....
so maybe the powers inside Apple pay attention and mantain the development of Apple hardware. Not to wait years and years to update a line as the new Mac Pro.
Portables are a good market for Apple to grow. Also, I think a revamped mini can help to boost the sales (maybe in the same price range). I am almost sure that the iToys also drives sales to the Mac camp, away from PCs.
Very hard to Apple to compete against the price point from Dell.....
Retail surveys, I believe.
Not that market share means much of anything. It's the YoY unit sales increase that impresses (provided it holds up).