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Apple Surpasses Dell in EU Education Market

Posted by Zonk on from the europe-has-good-taste dept.

wackymacs writes "According to a report from Macworld UK, Apple has confirmed it has taken the number one spot in the Western European education market. The company's education market share in the region is now 15.2 percent, placing Dell, with 14.7 percent, to second place. Gartner analyst Isabelle Durand confirmed: 'During the fourth quarter 2005, Apple became the number one PC vendor in the Western European Education market. The company has continued to grow very strongly (+22.4 per cent) and achieved a 15.2 per cent of market share in Q4 2005.'"

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  1. ZOMG WTF BBQ!!!!!!!!!11 by HunterZ · · Score: -1, Troll

    ZOMG! Dell, Send sum mor computars to Europe now!!!11 PC r0x0rz & Mac sux!!!

    Sorry, the summary sounded a bit melodramatic...

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  2. why isn't Apple hated? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Having 90-something percent market share with their ipod, no other market leader enjoys widespread public support as Apple. How come people aren't "player"-hatin' on Apple?

    Note: I like Apple etc. still it's fascinating that idiots havent stared hatin' on them.

    Wanting drama, I'll even offer up some suggested angles:

    1) Napster has a better and cleaner interface than itunes.

    2) Ipod's DRM sucks, and they only support their particular DRM .. making it impossible for musicians who want to sell DRM'd music that plays on the iPod wihout going through Itunes.

    3) You can't easily replace the batteries in the ipod like how you can with digital cameras and cell phones. You must send it away etc.

  3. Macs on Campus by taskforce · · Score: 1, Troll
    At the higher education school where I currently am in the UK, we have a split 50:50 Mac:Windows ratio. It's very hard to get a PC, but there are always Macs available. The general consensus around the campus is that "Macs suck" and while the Windows PCs aren't exactly amazing, the Macs are the bottom of the pile. It's not like they're using legacy OS9 Macs either; these are flat screen 17" all in one iMac G5s.

    If anything, putting their computers in an environment like a school to show young people that Macs *do indeed actually crash quite a bit, even under OS X* is a bad idea.

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  4. Stupid headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I cannot imagine who would think that this is news. Apple has 15.2% Microsoft has um... 84.8%, oh yes Apple is Nr.1 in education. Seems to me like the writer needs an education in maths.

  5. Whis is this modded troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is a true and insightful comment and exactly the situation at my school too. My guess: it's because the default mouse settings for macs absolutely suck. I'll jump on a PC over a Mac in the lab too, because even though the Mac is a superior computer, the PC has a much more sensitive mouse that can right click, middle click, and scroll. The Mac mouse is sluggish and a pain in the ass to do alternative clicking/scrolling. I know this can be easily replaced and changed, of course, but it's too much of a pain in the ass to have to do this every time you just randomly sit down at a public machine, so most people (myself included) avoid the problem entirely.

  6. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mac fanboys are pathetic. Neither the parent nor grandparent posts were trolls, neither disparaged macs unfairly, they both just said they are underused in computer labs. If anything, the parent post complimented macs, just said that the default mouse settings suck (which they do).

    Sheesh. Moderators, get a life and/or a brain.