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Macs show 67 percent year-on-year value growth in February, while overall value only rises 5 percent.
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Macs show 67 percent year-on-year value growth in February, while overall value only rises 5 percent.
The market also grew...
What Walibe said, no story here that isn't being whipped up by fanboys giving the rest of us a bad name.
Shame to see Hexus posting headlines that frankly belong somewhere like Pocket Lint.
The headline and story concern the share of the US PC retail market owned by Apple Macs.
Macs accounted for: '14 percent of the total volume and a full quarter of the total value of the US computer retail sector. This compares with shares of nine and 15 percent respectively a year ago.'
Hence: 'Apple gains US PC market share'.
The data is based on retail, and EXCLUDES on-line sales. Seeing Apple have pushed heavily in the POS arena in the U.S, is it really a suprise? Either way its overall percent of the market is still questionable when you consider how many PCs Dell ships on-line, especially in the U.S.
I'm not having a digg or anything at you guys, I just think it needs to be taken with a pinch of salt when on-line sales arn't even counted.
Better headline? "Apple gains U.S Retail (although not on-line) market share" :).
And I'm an Apple fanboy, - just a realistic one :).
As Walibe says, no dig at you guys, it's just 'Macs continued to comfortably outpace the rest of the US PC retail market' is a ridiculously innacurate statement when compared to sales and results elsewhere.
It's not taken as a dig (or digg - although feel free to do that too), I just don't see where the inaccuracy is.
If we accept that retail means high street retail as opposed to etail, then the stats are what they are: Apple's gained market share. Whether or not that's a surprise is not for me to judge - to some people it might be.
If you think I should have added 'High Street' for clarity, then fair enough - good point.
Its not made clear by Apple Insider to be honest :).