Cumulative sales as of last December: 88,708,000 (for a total revenue exceeding $17.36 billion). Thus this quarter Apple sold approx. 12,000,000 iPods.
Some of these iPods were stolen, some broke and were replaced, some people own more than one, but all in all Apple has sold 100 million iPods.
Most of them are in use because the vast majority, more than 90 million units, have been sold since January 2005.
Now the question is what will happen going forward, when AmErIcAnIdOl62614 logs on to ITMS, and sees the following choice: [...] Where is the average joe and jane six pack going to click?
Joe Six-pack will never see such a choice. During the press conference Jobs said that "iTunes will let users choose to automatically buy these new DRM-free versions whenever they are available, so that users won't need to think about it on a song by song basis." (start around minute 21 of the webcast)
Who else thinks that BootCamp being in the top 20 best OSX products is kinda silly?
Since the Intel switch it's all about BootCamp, Parallels and VMware but it's not a new trend. Before that people were using Virtual PC by Connectix or Insignia's RealPC.
Computers have moved to a point where different people use them for wildly different purposes. As such, you simply can't have "top X products" for an entire OS. If on Mac it's not the same, it's that much sadder.
Windows is not a minority OS, everybody is used to it. This is not the case for Linux but listing your top ten thousand packages for Debian or RedHat would be too long.:-) Now some people are switching to the Mac, after spending x years or even decades on Windows, there is admittedly a learning curve. They need to learn about the Mac keyboard shortcuts, the apps/utilities, etc.
if apple has 3-4% marketshare and we know they dont sell much to the business market.
You think that Apple is mostly selling to consumers? You're wrong.
"Apple's Macs are primarily targeted at three core markets: consumer segment (25% of Apple's PC business), education (33%), and SMB with a strong focus on creative
professionals." (Deutsche Bank report citing IDC figures)
Apple is selling hundred thousands of Macs in the education sector, in this earnings call transcript Tim Cook mentions two large contracts totaling 50,000 units and this is not an uncommon occurrence.
"Ten percent of the Company's net sales in 2006 were through its U.S. education channel, including sales to elementary and secondary schools, higher education institutions, and individual customers." (Annual annual report 2006)
Apple is also doing well outside of the U.S., last year a Gartner analyst told Macworld: "For the first time, Apple is number one in the EMEA education market with 11.6 per cent of the market in Q3/2006 against 9.6 per cent in Q3/2005."
they might have at least a 1/3 or more right now of the home market.
Apple is gaining market share in the consumer segment, in Q2 2005 Apple's share increased to 5.5 percent in the U.S. and 3.1 percent worldwide (Deutsche Bank report citing IDC figures). It must be higher by now, but nowhere near 33 percent!
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The consumer market is 40-50 percent of the total PC market.
You think that Apple is mostly selling to consumers? You're wrong.
"Apple's Macs are primarily targeted at three core markets: consumer segment (25% of Apple's PC business), education (33%), and SMB with a strong focus on creative professionals." (Deutsche Bank report citing IDC figures)
Apple is selling hundred thousands of Macs in the education sector, in this earnings call transcript Tim Cook mentions two large contracts totaling 50,000 units and this is not an uncommon occurrence.
"Ten percent of the Company's net sales in 2006 were through its U.S. education channel, including sales to elementary and secondary schools, higher education institutions, and individual customers." (Annual annual report 2006)
Apple is also doing well outside of the U.S., last year a Gartner analyst told Macworld: "For the first time, Apple is number one in the EMEA education market with 11.6 per cent of the market in Q3/2006 against 9.6 per cent in Q3/2005."
Apple is gaining market share in the consumer segment, in Q2 2005 Apple's share increased to 5.5 percent in the U.S. and 3.1 percent worldwide (Deutsche Bank report citing IDC figures). It must be higher by now, but nowhere near 33 percent!