Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005

sebFlyte writes "Spurred on by the iPod, Apple's share of the desktop computer market will grow to five percent (from three percent) this year, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Apparrently nearly 20% of iPod users surveyed are planning to switch to Macs, and the sales figures for the last few quarters are backing up the theory of the iPod Halo Effect. All this suggests the question ... how many iPod-touting Slashdotters are thinking of switching?"

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Apple vs. Dell -- Who do you think will win?

[Piewalker]

Five percent market share increase? Whooped-dee-doo. Dell already won the race. You can count me out of the Mac world. The only outstanding products are their monitors. They have superior display resolution, period, unless anyone else can show me a product that's better. Aside from that, Macintosh as a brand would have to grow much faster to overtake any PC ground, and that seems unlikely with their otherwise equivocal or inferior products, including the IPOD or the Mac Mini.

Re:20% switching? No way.

[computerme]

um. some of us consider games a waste of time... I'll assume you and your frat brothers may think otherwise which is fine, but to think that games are the centers of regular folk's lives is just plain silly.

Absolute crap!

[Reality Master 101]

Analyst firm Morgan Stanley forecast on Friday that the Mac -- currently on three percent of desktops -- could win its way to five percent of desktop sales this year. This was based on a survey of 400 iPod users that found that 19 percent expect to convert from PC to Macintosh.

What absolute crap. 20% of iPod users going to switch? They're going to throw away their entire hardware investment and software investment, all because of an MP3 player??

I don't know how they phrased the question, or how they interpreted the answer ("would you ever consider moving to Apple" or something stupid), but it's just not going to happen.

Re:Why I switched BACK from Apple to Windows

[pv2b]

Congratulations. Excellent troll. If this is original, well, sir, you definitely have talent.

lies

[GoatPigSheep]

This is a windows-centric opinion... Windows needs 512mb to actually get work done, but OS X runs fine with 256mb. Apple designs computers that work fine out of the box with a stock configuration. I have an imac with 256mb and it runs much faster than most PC systems I have used with 512mb ram.

It's like saying a 3ghz P4 is faster than a 2ghz g5, which isn't true. The number is higher but a higher number isn't always faster.