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Apple grabs 6.6% market share of U.S. PC retail market through August

thestreet.com — Apple Computer reports fourth-quarter earnings later Tuesday, but it's what the company says on Wednesday that may grab investors' attention this week," Troy Wolverton reports for TheStreet.com. "Apple has scheduled a press event Wednesday where analysts expect CEO Steve Jobs to unveil a new, video-enabled iPod music player.

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  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy *****! Thank you for this news. YES!

    "Through August, Apple's share of the U.S. retail market for computers, excluding online sales, grew to 6.6% from 4.3% in the same period last year, according to market researcher NPD Group."
  • iaskedTGT, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Lemming Spam
  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0'Lemming Spam' Doesn't sound very tasty. I think I'll pass. Apple is back baby!
  • outerspaceapple, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0wow, 6.6%? thats almost 50%! and then apple will rule the world!! (along with google of course)
  • firecrafter695, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Go Apple! That makes me smile on the inside :)
  • ashanks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good article. ;)
  • KriLL3.2™, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0According to all retailers the powerbooks are starting to drop in production. And the nano was so recently released that a video ipod would only hurt nano sales.

    It will be a new powerbook. The real hype machines say it will be a Pentium M. I doubt that though. I guess it will be some upgrade to the G4 Powerbooks. But yeah... could be a Pentium M. Apple doesn't see the market or the content for a video ipod.
  • Hexxagonal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Obviously there is going to be an increase over last year, I actually thought it would be higher.
  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Obvious? Well then, maybe you should consider becoming a tech analyst. Good luck with that and keep us updated. ;-)
  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually it is higher... they left out ONLINE SALES! So it's probably closer to 8-10%
  • fudgebrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's happening.
  • Snyder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Go Apple! The bigger you get the more Microsoft has to get their ***** together to make better products, and the same for you too. Better products all around! YAY! :)
  • tryferos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Will these numbers ever grow to something substantial like 40-60%, without Apple selling a version of OSX for PC's?
  • tophfisher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One thing to keep in mind is that even at 6% I read some where thats still 1 in 5 home computers. If you take out the sales for corporations, and you accounts for already established customer base the figure turns out to be kind of surprising.
  • acemilo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Um, 1 in 5 would be 20%, 6% would be roughly 1 out of every 16 computers or so.
  • weareglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, one would think that retail purchases would include mostly residential use computers. That's probably why they use that figure instead of online ordering, maybe that'd actually be lower
  • clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Apple sucks. Someone kill Mr Jobs already please.
  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Uhh... this is just for three months worth of sales. The user base is much larger than 6%
    Sorry to disappoint you acemilo.
  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Weareglass WTF? If these are recorded sales through brick and morter only then if you include online how can it be lower?
  • il0vemymac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yes! Lets hope Apple keeps taking a bite out of Bill Gates' empire! This is news I've been wanting to see for a long time. Apple understands people use the computer for leisure too, not just stuffy office work. Apple also understands that people dont deserve horrible OS's plagued with viruses and spyware. Lets hope Apple's market share gets up to 15% by next year, which is feasible.
  • heavyness, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1you can almost hear all the hackers and virus writers booting up their apples...
  • weareglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sorry, I forgot to type a line. Online sales would include bulk shipments to corporations, and as far as I know Apple's marketshare is still vastly higher in residential markets and education than in business. So brick and mortar sales, being almost all residential, will have a higher proportion of Apple sales. Does that sound right?
  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Unix has been out for how long now Heavyness? Is it safe? Is it secure? Well then you have your answer.
  • j_bellone, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Heh. 6.6%. Yeah, that's a lot. Keep trying assholes.
  • jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0APPLE ROCKETS DOWN OVER TEN PERCENT IN AFTER HOURS TRADING!!!

    HYPE STOCK TURNS OUT TO BE OVERVALUED!!!!!

    I LOVE SHORT SELLING!!!!

    LOL!!!!!!!
  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Weareglass, it would be if it were possible to purchase a Mac from just about any place like you would a PC. Online is how many people still purchase Macs. Apple is opening more stores everyday.
  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's funny to see insecurities coming out from WinTrolls. I love it. Give me more guys....more!
  • weareglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is a good point, I'm just saying don't assume the online stats would be better, they may in fact be worse or similar, when accounting for the many corps who buy a bunch of Dells online in bulk
  • KriLL3.2™, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No computer system is 100% secure. But yes a stock OSX install vs a stock XP install is a no brainer.

    A heavily tweaked XP install is something totally diffrent. And no I'm not talking security updates and elabroate antivirus software. I'm talking about simply dumping IE and Outlook. Then close some ports. Done.
  • dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Just wait till virus writers start seeing Apple having more market share, then you'll get your aparently non-exisant viruses/hacks for OS X..
    - Ben
  • goat2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0In other news, windows is still >85% marketshare.


    GO MICROSOFT. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • ProAm500, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Not knocking Apple, but why do Apple people feel its so important to post this kind of ***** on here every 3 months.....I swear this kind of post is on here at least once every quarter...
  • bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"Not knocking Apple, but why do Apple people feel its so important to post this kind of ***** on here every 3 months...."

    Any computer user should be happy when Apple's marketshare increases, or Linux's for that matter. It's a sign of an MS hegemony (hopefully) deteriorating.
  • dj_houdini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Market-share really does not interest me. Most people shop at Wal-Mart. So what. Ok Microsoft has 85% of the market-share... So that just tells me that Win/Tel machines are more COMMON. In my studio I use Windows, Irix and OSX. For me it like this. The Apple machines just work. Irix just works. The windows machines are a constant struggle. All you apple nuts out there are never going to convert windows users to the mac. Let it go. People will make up their own minds.
  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Didn't MS have 95% of the market-share? What happen? Yeah, give it more time and that number will decrease a bit more... and then a bit more and a bit more. lol Times up WinTrolls. Apple's coming for ya.
  • gregcotten, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0ooooooohhh ahhhh!

    Seriously. I really don't think this matters.
  • npacheco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Sorry *****, Microsoft has 0% marketshare - THEY DON'T MAKE PCS. This is hardware, retards.
  • Gl4di4tor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thats a pretty large figure if u think about it.
  • dominiccarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is good news, If anything Mor epeople moving to Mac will make Microsoft up their game.
  • neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i don't see Apple systems running Windows... so you could say that Mac OSX has a 6.6% market share.
  • Lynn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone know the percent of the World market Apple has? This is only the U.S. PC market.
  • npacheco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dominiccarr, completely irrelevant.
  • HackWithRamzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Intel macs tomorrow... just wait. Put your money on it. I would if I had any!
  • DonWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I read the description and thought that it proved that Stevie was releasing an iPod video, but it doesn't. I wouldn't be suprised -at all- if they release their first intel product tomorrow - powerbook.
  • Sireg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Digg.com is a collection of Apple circle jerkers and trolls. I'm sorry. That is what it reall is.
  • captainjy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You mean, the bigger you get the more like Microsoft you will become! Come on people!!! Stevie Jobs is an even bigger weenus than Billy Gates! You just aren't getting it, the PC is going nowhere. MS is going nowhere. Apple is growing, great, but they aren't replacing Windows any time soon.
  • seriypshick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"All you apple nuts out there are never going to convert windows users to the mac. Let it go. People will make up their own minds."
    In 6 month period I converted my whole family(10 people) + 7 other people.
  • saggygrandma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0YAY Great News
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