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66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs

Posted by kdawson on from the factory-to-fingers dept.

An anonymous reader lets us know about a recent analysis of retail computer sales numbers that shines a spotlight on Apple's sales growth as the PC market has flattened. In the lucrative >$1,000 PC segment, in the first quarter of 2008, Apple's retail market share was 66%. This includes a 64% market share for laptops and a market share for desktops of 70%. The article attributes the bulk of this success to Apple's stores. Fortune picked up this report and pointed out the somewhat obvious fact that the >$1,000 PC segment is Apple's by default, since Dell, HP, and Lenovo sell the bulk of their machines in the $500-$750 range, and Apple has only one model selling for less than $1,000. As the analyst said, "If you don't give people a choice [in the Apple stores], people will spend more."

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  1. masturbation in 3,2,1 by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Funny

    fanboys GO

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    1. Re:masturbation in 3,2,1 by SpeedyG5 · · Score: 5, Funny

      anti-fanboys post in . . . doh!

    2. Re:masturbation in 3,2,1 by Aardpig · · Score: 2, Funny

      Launch all Safaris! For Great Justice!

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  2. Those with money to burn... by Aardpig · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...will always find someone to tend the fire. Still, I'm sure they sleep better knowing that they're 'Trendy Mac', rather than 'Fat, Sad PC'.

    * What they don't realize, of course, is that PC only got fat because Mac's mother gave him a cookie every time he fucked her.

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    1. Re:Those with money to burn... by CrankinOut · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, PC got fat because Uncle IBM hired him into his company, bought him a suit, and sent him off to work in corporations, which were conservative and already bought the uncle's products. When he grew up, he decided to launch a corporate takeover, undermining his uncle's business to the benefit of his own. He then declared himself brilliant and innovative.

  3. OSX in 2008! by Artuir · · Score: 4, Funny

    See, guys? I TOLD you it'd be the year of OSX on the desktop!!

  4. Re: You get... by unfunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    legally, you can't... you'd be violating the MacSpeak EULA.. ;)

  5. Re:$1,000 market dominance... by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your mum would leave a dent in Panasonic Toughbook.

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  6. Re:It's mis-leading anyway by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Funny
    Mod parent up. Insightful and this makes me laugh for some reason -

    It's a bit like saying that Joe is the world leader in selling over-$1000 cats by Ebay and air mail. Sure, he only sold one on Ebay, but he's the only guy who sedated the cat and sent it by air mail. The rest of the people bought their cats face to face, or had them delivered by courier in a few cases. Narrow it down to Ebay and air mail, and, bam, Joe has 100% of that market. Maybe I've spent too much time looking at code, but it makes me think

    typedef enum
    CAT_DELIVERY_METHOD_FACE_TO_FACE=0,
    CAT_DELIVERY_METHOD_COURIER,
    CAT_DELIVERY_METHOD_AIRMAIL_SEDATED, /* (Added for PROJECT_JOE) */

    CAT_DELIVERY_MAX_LEGAL_US=1000, /* Later ones only used outside US */
    CAT_DELIVERY_GPS_GUIDED_SHOCK_COLLAR,

    CAT_DELIVERY_MAX_NON_LETHAL=2000, /* Past here, Cat is food, not pet */
    CAT_DELIVERY_AIRMAIL_FREEZE_DRIED,

    } CAT_DELIVERY_METHODS;

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  7. Re:Industrial design does matter by iNaya · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dammit! I'm going to start a new brand of computers called Orange.

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  8. Re:WinMac Fanboy Haiku Ceremony. by Serious+Callers+Only · · Score: 3, Funny

    willyhill, you are a worse blight on Slashdot than the plague of twitter posts which you go on about.

    Are you a short perl script?

    You certainly sound like one, as you repeat just about the entire post over and over, it seems in response to any post by twitter.

  9. Re:Style is money by 2short · · Score: 2, Funny

    And that statement is: "I am an idiot"