Apple's True Market Share!

[Alex]

> on 12/9/2002 9:48 AM, Henry Kalir at kalirhe at UMDNJ.EDU wrote:
>
>> I guess then that one could conclude that this has no effect 
>> whatsoever on
>> the market side of things, else how do you account for Apple's 
>> miniscule
>> market share?
>>

Hi All

I am slightly put out by the talk about Apple's 'miniscule market 
share'. So lets clear this up here and now. There are only two major 
Desktop platforms out there at the moment Wintel and Macintosh, and 
indeed the proportion of Mac's to Wintel PCs puts Mac's at less than 5% 
of the total market. However you should not judge one company in a 
market against the rest of the market as a whole you should judge it 
against other companies in the same market to get any perspective about 
it performance.

The figures below are for the second quarter of 2000 (OK I know it was 
some time ago I am getting more up to date figure is anyone is 
interested). Things have changed since then as HP and Compac have 
merged and lost market share by doing so, current info puts Apple as 
the third largest computer manufacturer behind Dell and HP/Compac. Not 
so small at all!!  In 2000 Apple had a bigger bite of the market than 
SONY or TOSHIBA! Just have a look below.

If anyone on the list is interested I have a friend who works for one 
of the big market information houses and I can get figures than will 
give a better view of market share over the past few years.

Happy Mac'in

Alex
:-)

Figures for Q@ 2000
source  http://www.infotechtrends.com
						Share		Units
Compaq					13.3%		17,425
Dell						11.5%		15,067
Hewlett-Packard			8.0%			10,481
IBM						7.0%			9,171
Fujitsu Siemens			5.0%			6,551
NEC						4.5%			5,896
Gateway					4.0%			5,241
Apple					3.0%			3,930
Acer					3.0%			3,930
Toshiba					3.0%			3,930
Sony						1.5%			1,965
Legend					1.5%			1,965
eMachines				1.0%			1,310
Samsung					1.0%			1,310
Trigem					0.5%			655
Others					32.3%		42,318
Total					100.1%		131,145