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Apple’s strong Mac sales
Two recent articles showing how strong Mac sales are. Not just iOS devices.
https://gigaom.com/apple/macs-still-growing-while-rest-of-u-s-pc-market-stagnates/
Apple sold a little over 2 million Macs between October and the end of December, according to IDC. That’s 18 percent more than the roughly 1.7 million Macs the company sold during the same quarter a year ago.
The rest of the field did not fare much better in the U.S. None of the rest of the top five of the largest PC makers saw any growth at all. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Toshiba and Acer all saw declines in the number of PCs shipped last quarter.
The overall 5 percent contraction of the market since 2010 is second only to the 12 percent decline after the Y2K buildup and the dot-com bust of 2001.“The biggest disruptive force in the computer equipment market is not [the cloud], but Apple,” Bartels said in a recent report. “Its rapid growth in the corporate market has been the big surprise of 2011, and it will be even more of a factor in 2012.”
Bartels estimated Apple’s 2011 sales to enterprises at $12 billion, split evenly between Macs and iPads.So Apple’s Mac sales are growing well when compared against the rest of the industry. Macs may be growing in the corporate enterprise market as well (although still very small compared to Windows).
Of course none of this is specific to FCPX but it does say a lot about the computer industry.
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I’d venture a guess that the Mac Pro does not share the same positive sales trend as the Mac laptops or the iMac. I’d bet that the Mac Pro is doing poorly compared to tower PCs from other manufacturers. I think the writing is on the wall for the Mac Pro, and I suspect Apple will drop it entirely
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Craig,
There’s a lot of unsubstantiated guesswork in there, passing for “analysis”, don’t you think?
While he stressed that his numbers were only estimates — Apple does not break out sales to businesses in its earnings statements — he defended them as “in the ballpark.”
… not a particularly convincing argument.
Also there’s this:
“He attributed Apple’s recent high corporate sales growth rate to what he called “clandestine” acquisitions of Macs by higher-level employees — who are sometimes reimbursed by their firms — iPad purchases by IT departments and small businesses buying computers and tablets for both personal and business use.”
That sounds to me like his big speculation is that office workers are buying laptops and sometimes getting reimbursed. That may or may not be true but I think it’s important to qualify what he means by “enterprise sales”.
Franz.
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The MacPro is performing poorly and it’s why I believe it will be replaced . . . by a potentially more powerful system that will have wider appeal.
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[Craig Seeman] “… by a potentially more powerful system that will have wider appeal.”
That’s the speculation I like…a desk top version of the iPad! Cutting video with your finger tips, no mouse, no keyboard.
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[Richard Herd] “[Craig Seeman] “… by a potentially more powerful system that will have wider appeal.”
That’s the speculation I like…a desk top version of the iPad! Cutting video with your finger tips, no mouse, no keyboard.
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That sure doesn’t appeal to me. As something on the side, for a change of pace, sure. But as a replacement? Yuck.
Two years ago, when I first got an iPad, I thought “oh, wow! Here’s the future.” And while it still has its place in my arsenal, I now find it a bit confining, and generally prefer to use my laptop over it. I’m guessing I’m not alone in this.
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Whoa! Cutting video on an IPad. Kinda like doing graphic design with a mouse instead of a drawing tablet – it’s like drawing with a potato!
Joe Bourke
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its doing poorly cause there is no update!
I think we will see one soon… -
Although US sales figures are important to Apple, what is happening in the rest of the world? The growth of Linux in business and private is significant. No-one buys Mac hardware to run Linux. Also sales growth figures in one quarter do not make a long term trend.
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[Craig Seeman] “The MacPro is performing poorly and it’s why I believe it will be replaced . . . by a potentially more powerful system that will have wider appeal.
“Would anyone buy a MacPro at the moment? With thunderbolt yet to be added to the machine it would be like buying a car and being told that whilst it performed well you couldn’t take it out on the motorway.
I’m really struggling with my 2008 Quad-Core but at the moment I’ve got nowhere to go as I just don’t want to buy an iMac.
Want I want is both Thunderbolt, eSata and firewire but as time passes this seems less likely.
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Why are struggling with your 2008 Mac Pro?
No issues here with the 2008 models. You do have it packed with RAM and a good graphic card,correct?
I see this issue cross the board no matter what system Mac or PC, single to quad core Chips, it’s not going be fast with only 4 GB RAM.We will see what Apple and Tim Cook will bring us this year. Internet news articles say: Apple’s new CEO is more enterprise friendlier then Steve Jobs was. But again who believes what they read on the net? I guess many or we wouldn’t be talking about FCPX. lol
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