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Apple Reaches 12% Market Share In U.S. Notebooks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the growing-tree dept.

bonch writes "Apple's U.S. notebook market share has doubled to 12% after shipping 1.33 million Macs in the quarter. Apple also shipped 8.11 million iPods, topping analyst estimates, for a net income of $472 million. Remember when Apple was dying?" From the article: "The iPod shipments appeared to calm investors worried that growth in that red-hot business was slowing and Apple's results topped what analysts had said was a conservative forecast. Shares of Apple were down some 24 percent since early May. 'Apple looked good,' said Jane Snorek, technology analyst with First American Funds. 'The PC numbers were great, too.'"

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  1. Good news everyone! by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good news for Apple, great news for ubuntu and of course Excellent news for lovers of fried eggs :-)

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    1. Re:Good news everyone! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You mean "Eggcellent News"

  2. Meanwhile, Dell blames economic woes by dsginter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Timber!

    They're blaming a "global economic slowdown" but it looks to me like Apple are eating Dell's lunch.

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  3. With apologies to Stephen Fry... by jtcedinburgh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple might only have 12% of the market share in US Notebooks, but it's the top 12% :)

    John

  4. Apple Dell by csoto · · Score: 4, Funny

    As of this morning, Apple was at $52B to Dell's $50B. Right now, Dells down to $43B. Dell should sell off the company's assets and divide the proceeds amongst shareholders ;)

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  5. Re:Good Products = Success by blackmonday · · Score: 4, Funny
    Each time I walk by his desk and see one monitor with the OSX desktop and another with his win desktop up, I wish for the imminent doom of my dell.

    See that little fan in the back? Put a little screwdriver in there and run the laptop for a few hours. I "smell" a Macbook Pro in your future!

  6. Apple Still makes computers? by lawnboy5-O · · Score: 3, Funny

    you mean i can stop upgrading my powerbook 1400?

  7. Hope for BSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey, if there's hope for Apple, maybe there's still some hope left for BSD!

  8. Re:Not that surprised by rfovell · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm running a MacBook Pro right now and cooking breakfast

    Remember when Macs couldn't multitask? ;-)

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  9. Re:Stock by Lord+Flipper · · Score: 2, Funny
    The system crashed due to a hardware problem, costing me over 12 hours worth of lost billable hours with the loss of the one open file with which I was working.

    It didn't cross your mind to do a little Command-S, anywhere during that 12 hours? Jesus. Tell me you aren't a pilot or a doctor.