Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Apple retail wrap-up: first Scotland and Italy locations to open in '07
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> | Apple's fiscal year 2006 ended on September 30 with Apple having
> | opened the doors to 41 retail stores in the previous 12 months,e
> | xactly on target with estimates offered by Apple executives at
> | the start of the year.
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> http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0611retailwrapup.html
>From 3.2% of 1 billion, to 5.2%, or 32 million to 52 million, roughly
20 million new units. That would be about 20% of the market over a
year.
43.3 to 52.1 million, that's about 9 million - in 3 months. That would
be almost 1/3 of the total number of machines sold in the last quarter.
I'd say Apple has found a winning combination, *nix, Intel, and Windows
emulation.
What Next,
Linspire with Crossover?
Novell SUSE with Vista Guest?
Ubuntu with Win4Lin?
Installed by the OEM and put on the Retail shelves?
> Users are clearly migrating away from Windows and now is the time to welcome
> them. While Apple can gauge its userbase (market share), Linux cannot. In
> fact, Macs can run Linux, but non-Apple hardware cannot run OS X. Linus uses
> Apple hardware.
Keep in mind that Linux users don't need to dump OS/X. OS/X supports
gcc and glibc, and runs most of the OSS applications available to
Linux. The things that Mac can't install themselves is virtual
desktops.
> Related:
>
> Apple's Mac OS Market Share Spikes to 5.21 Percent - Up 35 Percent Year Over
> Year - Growth Accelerates
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> | Key Percent Increases
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> | * Up 52.8 percent since January 2005
> | * Up 48.0 percent since April 2005 (Mac OS X Tiger launched April
> | 29, 2005)
> | * Up 23.8 percent January to October 2006 - despite Intel transition
> | * Up 10.4 percent since September 2006
> | * Up 20.3 percent since August 2006
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> http://switchtoamac.com/site/apples-mac-os-market-share-spikes-to-521-percent-up-35-percent-year-over-year-growth-accelerates.html
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