Replies to post #62560 on Apple Inc (AAPL)

[tomm]

According to the market research company IDC, Apple’s share of the United States computer market grew to 5.8 percent from 4.3 percent in the quarter the year before.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/technology/19apple.html?ref=technology

[Tex]

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.