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Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:57:46 PM
re market share
According to this, worldwide PC sales totalled 57,052,000 in Q3 2006, which would give Apple a 2.82% worldwide market share, or the highest it's had since the same quarter in 2001.
Given that Apple's share in non-US markets is often lots lower than in the US, what can we say about US share? Anyone got the numbers there?
Thanks
Take care,
--Tex.
UPDATE: Just read Tomm's post #62561: US share up to 5.8% from 4.3% in the year ago quarter. Thanks!
Comment on BlueDjinn's post# 62562:
FWIW, as much as I disagree with Lango on so many other issues, he and I do agree that it's the *global* marketshare that really counts.
This might be true in the sense of measuring how big Apple is as a vendor, but US share has importance in gauging how successfully Apple is gaining local mindshare. Apple isn't going to compete for the $300 beige-box 14" screen business in third-world countries, so that's not really a market I want to measure. Knowing how Apple is succeeding in the US market, which isn't selling as much of that, helps me see a little better how Apple is doing at growing the segment of the market in which Apple is competing. Also: multinationals with US HQ could (if Apple gets an enterprise strategy) turn into a way to get Apple products moved abroad, and increasing share here is probably prerequisite to increased share in markets more hotly contested with cheap boxes.
According to this, worldwide PC sales totalled 57,052,000 in Q3 2006, which would give Apple a 2.82% worldwide market share, or the highest it's had since the same quarter in 2001.
Given that Apple's share in non-US markets is often lots lower than in the US, what can we say about US share? Anyone got the numbers there?
Thanks
Take care,
--Tex.
UPDATE: Just read Tomm's post #62561: US share up to 5.8% from 4.3% in the year ago quarter. Thanks!
Comment on BlueDjinn's post# 62562:
FWIW, as much as I disagree with Lango on so many other issues, he and I do agree that it's the *global* marketshare that really counts.
This might be true in the sense of measuring how big Apple is as a vendor, but US share has importance in gauging how successfully Apple is gaining local mindshare. Apple isn't going to compete for the $300 beige-box 14" screen business in third-world countries, so that's not really a market I want to measure. Knowing how Apple is succeeding in the US market, which isn't selling as much of that, helps me see a little better how Apple is doing at growing the segment of the market in which Apple is competing. Also: multinationals with US HQ could (if Apple gets an enterprise strategy) turn into a way to get Apple products moved abroad, and increasing share here is probably prerequisite to increased share in markets more hotly contested with cheap boxes.
