Friday, January 19, 2007
The Mac maker fell a full percentage point to 5.1 percent of the domestic market between the third and fourth quarters of the year, trading places with Toshiba, which climbed from 5.1 to 5.3 percent. Apple remained out of the top five in the world rankings, but a similar set of data released by IDC on Wednesday puts its international share at 2.4 percent.
Shipments of Macs in the U.S. also dipped significantly from 975,000 US systems to 808,000, indicating a genuine slowdown in sales for the Cupertino-based company....
Looks like the trend isn't really on the upside at this juncture.
Now that Dell has signed AMD and is ramping AMD CPU sales the 3% decline they've had may also reverse given that AMD is ramping its output with new fab lines and a 65nm process.
Don't get me wrong however, I'd jump to Apple in a minute if they had apps I couldn't get elsewhere or if they had an OS that was cheaper/superior for my purposes or if Jobs just got his liberal nose out of the air some of the time.
I'm presently dual booting Linux/XP and finding the free Ubuntu OS and the free apps almost superior to MS. Only a few apps remain that only run on MS and may never be ported, especially once the newer CPUS can run multiple OS's at the same time.
Uh, All-Mighty? Quarter to quarter shipment changess are not that significant.
Look instead at year over year quarters. Apple shipped a total of 1,606,000 Macs in the 4th quarter (note, this is Apple's Fiscal 1st quarter), compared to 1,254,000 in the same quarter a year ago, an increase of 28%.
Apple ALWAYS sells more computers domestically in their 4th quarter (July-September) than in their 1st quarter (October-December) because it contains the domestic institutional sales to schools.
What IS significant is that this year Apple Inc. maintained the LEVEL of computer sales quarter over quarter from 4th to 1st... posting 1,610,000 Macs in the 4th Q and 1,606,000 in the 1st Q. That means that 1st Q foreign sales have increased by a large amount to compensate for the downtick in domestic sales.
Are you sure he has it in the air? I am reminded of the South Park episode on hybrid cars.
Or if Apple didn't have Al Gore on the board. Sheesh, a nest of vipers.