Apple's struggles to gain PC market share continue

AppleInsider ^ | June 1, 2006 | Kasper Jade and Katie Marsal

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

According to research firm Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 57 million units in the first quarter of 2006, representing a 13.1 percent increase over the same period last year. But in that time, Apple's share of the worldwide market slipped from 2.2 percent to a mere 2.0 percent, the firm's data shows.

[Petronski]

I was looking for citations of actual sales, not just Gartner's data.

RTFM

What manual? I don't see a manual. You've linked articles. Maybe you meant RTFA.

Try not to be such a prick.

[Petronski]

You should especially try not to be such a prick twice.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^I was looking for citations of actual sales, not just Gartner's^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The problem with that is that a good portion of linux userbase is not because of sales.

^^^^^^^^Try not to be such a prick.^^^^^^^^^^^

I do appologize. I normally go back and forth between a few forums and a post rubbed me the wrong way. Apparently it carried over.

[Petronski]

My apologies as well. My original post was an expression my surprise that someone would claim US Apple sales were only 2%.

Of course, that was not your claim at all. You very clearly stated you were speaking of worldwide sales....and as you imply, I did not read very carefully.

Be well.

[HAL9000]

If Apple were to become a purely software company, they'd have to scrap their OS business and become a vendor of Windows software. Not an option.

If Apple becomes a software company, I believe they will license Mac OS X to hardware vendors for resale with Apple-certified models.

[aliquis]

Absolutely!