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kickahaApple announced earnings tonight.
2.1M Macs sold this past quarter.
According to this here article at the NY Times yesterday, "Gartner forecast that Apple would grow more than 37 percent based on expected shipments of 1.3 million computers, for an 8.1 percent share of the domestic market."
Let's adjust, assuming Gartner's estimate of total sales is accurate...
8.1% = 1.3M/X
X = 16.05M
2.1/16.05M = 13.1%
...
Wow. They broke 10%, and handily. I've said for years, that I'd be thrilled if Apple had 10% of the US market, and stayed there. Now, 20% doesn't look out of the realm of reason. Dayum.
Take out massitude bottom-budget cubicle-filling PC orders, and... that's a serious chunk of the consumer market.
Just, wow.
Edit: If today's after-hours nearly 7% boost to AAPL holds, when the market opens in the morning, Apple will have a larger market cap than IBM or Intel.
Jeebus.
2.1M Macs sold this past quarter.
According to this here article at the NY Times yesterday, "Gartner forecast that Apple would grow more than 37 percent based on expected shipments of 1.3 million computers, for an 8.1 percent share of the domestic market."
Let's adjust, assuming Gartner's estimate of total sales is accurate...
8.1% = 1.3M/X
X = 16.05M
2.1/16.05M = 13.1%
...
Wow. They broke 10%, and handily. I've said for years, that I'd be thrilled if Apple had 10% of the US market, and stayed there. Now, 20% doesn't look out of the realm of reason. Dayum.
Take out massitude bottom-budget cubicle-filling PC orders, and... that's a serious chunk of the consumer market.
Just, wow.
Edit: If today's after-hours nearly 7% boost to AAPL holds, when the market opens in the morning, Apple will have a larger market cap than IBM or Intel.
Jeebus.
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Date: 2007-10-23 10:59 pm (UTC)No, I just think it's going to be another 3-5 years before there's another Windows client to up the HW bar yet again at the OS level.
Hell, the 360 and PS3 might even be near the top end of what the software manufacturers want to deliver, polygon- and framerate-wise. (Based on no evidence, I grant, but once you're approaching photorealism at 60 fps, who cares anymore?)