http://www.sampletheweb.com/2009/07/23/i-wonder-what-apples-percentage-of-market-for-sub-1000-computers-might-be/ Whispering sweet nothings into the internet's ear since May of 2002. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:36:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2009/07/23/i-wonder-what-apples-percentage-of-market-for-sub-1000-computers-might-be/comment-page-1/#comment-184335 I’m a Computer Enthusiast and I’m a PC | Armchair Theorist Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:42:35 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/?p=5049#comment-184335 [...] No doubt the economy has something to do with it (although Gruber dismisses that argument), and no doubt the Mac is a pretty product. The prevalence and acceptance of cloud services today also de-emphasizes the operating system to some degree. And the theory that Apple controls 91% of the revenue share for computes costing $1000+ (according to NPD) spells doom for the Windows business is also plausible (or not). [...] [...] No doubt the economy has something to do with it (although Gruber dismisses that argument), and no doubt the Mac is a pretty product. The prevalence and acceptance of cloud services today also de-emphasizes the operating system to some degree. And the theory that Apple controls 91% of the revenue share for computes costing $1000+ (according to NPD) spells doom for the Windows business is also plausible (or not). [...]

]]> http://www.sampletheweb.com/2009/07/23/i-wonder-what-apples-percentage-of-market-for-sub-1000-computers-might-be/comment-page-1/#comment-184328 I was going to write a detailed discussion of why I thought Daring Fireball was wrong… — Sample the Web Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:49:55 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/?p=5049#comment-184328 [...] The main bit of evidence for how much better Apple is doing than the declining Microsoft in Gruber’s argument is that bit of unverified analysis from last week that claimed that Apple owned 91% of the market for computers costing over $1000, which is supposedly an increase from the 66% of that same market that they had in Q1 2008. Of course, Gruber, just like everyone else who was in a tizzy about this news last week, fails to ask and investigate the big gaping hole and huge question surrounding that percentage shift: Percentage of what? 66% of a booming market can be far more than 91% of a market in decline, and no one who has analyzed this story has looked at any actual numbers, as I pointed out in this post: I wonder what Apple’s percentage of market for sub-$1000 computers might be. [...] [...] The main bit of evidence for how much better Apple is doing than the declining Microsoft in Gruber’s argument is that bit of unverified analysis from last week that claimed that Apple owned 91% of the market for computers costing over $1000, which is supposedly an increase from the 66% of that same market that they had in Q1 2008. Of course, Gruber, just like everyone else who was in a tizzy about this news last week, fails to ask and investigate the big gaping hole and huge question surrounding that percentage shift: Percentage of what? 66% of a booming market can be far more than 91% of a market in decline, and no one who has analyzed this story has looked at any actual numbers, as I pointed out in this post: I wonder what Apple’s percentage of market for sub-$1000 computers might be. [...]

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