The Industry Standard - Apple takes 50% notebook market share - Comments

I wouldn't want to put a bet

Daleos — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:52:16 -0700

I wouldn't want to put a bet on it but with all the new Atom based laptops like the eeepc, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's market share went down, not up.

1) linux and xp are

Darrel OPry454345 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:22:04 -0700

1) linux and xp are available as well.
2) huh? laptops always have limited options.
3) not compared to a 600USD dell new.
4) I run OS X on my used ThinkPad, and Apple opened up the vitualization gates on OS X.

plus there is the MID market to consider now with the likes of the eeepc, are they laptops or not? <400USD for cost conscious consumers and children's market.

No Chance. If this were

Matt Healey — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:36:08 -0700

No Chance.

If this were limtied to consumers only. And US only. And exluding everything but Vista PCs. Then maybe.

Apple garners 4.6% of

David Kuan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:37:33 -0700

Apple garners 4.6% of notebook market share in 1Q08. This is a far cry from the 50% target for next year.

@Abner, agree on easy money but the ROI on this is so far away. Much better plays available for several months to come.

Mac laptop share is south of

Abner Germanow — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:26:51 -0700

Mac laptop share is south of 10% today. This is easy money.

XP still dominates, and

Roger Harris — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:01:00 -0700

XP still dominates, and businesses are sticking with it. 50% is too much. Perhaps 25% is achievable.

Apple takes 50% notebook market share

The Standard — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:41:42 -0700

Jeremy Toeman has a really interesting prediction up on LIVEdigitally this morning, reasoning that there is a perfect storm of factors that will produce a huge leap in MacBook (i.e. notebook, non-desktop) market share in the next year.

To quote Jeremy:

1.) Vista is just a disaster (I can count on one hand the number of people I know personally who think it’s a step up from XP), and there’s no solution imminently on the horizon.

2.) The PC manufacturers are caught in an Innovator’s Dilemma moment where the thousands of configurable options on a PC are what their customers have asked for, yet don’t truly want.

3.) The price point of an entry level MacBook is on par with a Windows notebook.

4.) Finally, and possibly most importantly, the introduction of BootCamp and Parallels have enabled the “tentative” customers to make the leap, knowing they can run Windows for anything they miss (Outlook!)

This is a prediction that Apple laptops (we're going to be liberal here, i.e. not JUST the MacBook line and/or is successors, whatever the name, we're talking ALL Mac laptops in aggregate) will have at least 50% market share by this time next year.

As for the judging, this could be somewhat challenging. Oftentimes this type of data is released a good quarter after the time in question. Judgment will be made as soon as a metric showing Apple's sales are reported by a solid source. If a user finds this information before we do, and we accept the source, we'll award that user S$10,000 Standard Dollars for helping to close the prediction.