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    News - Apple is crowned dollar share king in US PC market

    ...depending on which figures you use.
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    Re: News - Apple is crowned dollar share king in US PC market

    Pretty pointless victory, if they didn't win. :/

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    Re: News - Apple is crowned dollar share king in US PC market

    They kinda did.

    Why have a 30% market share, when you can have a 15% with higher revenue then surely higher profit margins?

    The amount of times people talk about macbooks as thou they are the pinicle, despite having often quite lousy tfts.
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    Re: News - Apple is crowned dollar share king in US PC market

    Are Macs much less popular in the UK than the US?

    I still don't actually see many people with macs, despite their market share increasing, maybe they are all hidden away at home.
    Though a friend who's a lecturer says all the students have them...

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    Re: News - Apple is crowned dollar share king in US PC market

    Nothing says "well written professional journalism" like a Chart pulled straight from Excel


    Or is that just my cynicism speaking?

    EDIT: to clarify, I'm talking about the article being reported on, not Hexus' article

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    Re: News - Apple is crowned dollar share king in US PC market

    Nothing wrong with that, Excel is responsibe for many trillions of $s around this globe and does it better than anything else. It always makes me sad to think this.
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    Re: News - Apple is crowned dollar share king in US PC market

    Quote Originally Posted by mikerr View Post
    Are Macs much less popular in the UK than the US?
    Talking to myself, yes Apple has around double market share in US vs UK:

    http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/27/apple...6-8-in-europe/

    and is SHRINKING worldwide (never hear that in the generally pro-apple media do you ?)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11...ing_worldwide/
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    Re: News - Apple is crowned dollar share king in US PC market

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    They kinda did.

    Why have a 30% market share, when you can have a 15% with higher revenue then surely higher profit margins?

    The amount of times people talk about macbooks as thou they are the pinicle, despite having often quite lousy tfts.
    Except that:
    Yet he reportedly admitted: "If Apple's average selling price were substituted for IDC's, the Mac's dollar share of the U.S. home market would fall to 20.0%, slightly less than HP's share."
    So while they may be king of the profit margins, using incorrect figures hardly makes this article's point worthwhile. I don't think we have the full story though.

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