[Swordmaker]

Apple Mac US sales now 8.5% of the US Market... and growing 9 times faster than the market! PING!

Mac Sales Soaring Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

Apple takes the number 3 computer vendor slot in the US edging Acer.

[weegee]

Soon, enough Mac users will be out there, armed with a decent amount of Apple Retail Stores close at hand, that they'll be able to influence their tech-challenged family, friends, and neighbors enough to dissuade them from blindly running on over to Wal-Mart to inflict yet another dreadful Windows PC mess upon their ignorant selves. And then the Mac tsunami really hits.

So Walmart is prohibited by Apple from selling Macs? Fry's electronics sells them so they do not have an exclusive distribution channel.

It is a computer, not a religion.

[KoRn]

This comes as no surprise. Microsoft hasn’t really done anything new and positive for themselves in years, outside of the X-Box.

[politicket]

This article is rather stupid.

If "Worldwide Widget Company" sold two widgets a year ago and four widgets this year then their growth would be 100%.

At the same time, if "Mega Widget Company" sold 1,000 widgets last year and 1,100 widgets this year then their growth would be 10%

Mac folks would then write the headline: "Worldwide Widget Company has 10 times the growth of Mega Widget Company!!!"

Even though their actual number of units sold are 1,100 to 4.

[Tarpon]

Ubuntu, it’s free.

[newheart]

Ok. It’a off topic but is there any indication that the iPod Touch will come down in price. After all it is now much more than the phone and with less functionality.? My 17 year old, who follows this pretty closely, says it won’t happen till the back to school season is over.

Thoughts?