* Posts by Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure

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Wintel takes kicking from Apple, market share at all-time low

Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure

Re: Actually I win

The interesting thing is that Windows PCs seem to be stuck on around 85m sales per quarter, not growing at all for the last 8 quarters, whereas Apple's iPad is growing very rapidly, and with 17m iPads, plus 4m Macs, in the last quarter, Apple PC numbers have reached 25% of the Windows PC sales. It wouldn't surprise me if in the final October, November, December quarter this year, Windows PCs are still stuck at around the 85m mark but Apple sell 35m iPads (including the 7" ipads) plus 5m Macs. This would give rise to the delicious statistic of Apple PCs reaching 47% of the number of Windows PCs sold. And there are those who say the iPhone is a personal computer, so if you were to include those also, the figure becomes Apple PC sales are equal to 78% of Windows PC sales - in the interests of fairness I have added the 5m Win Phone 8 sales I expect in the quarter to the Windows total, so it is 70m Apple PCs v 90m Windows PCs. I don't have any Apple devices personally but I do like to see some competition in the PC market, so I am enjoying the show.