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Mac shipments are outpacing the market 3 to 1

An interesting article over at CNN talks about the growth of Mac inside the worldwide market for personal computers. The original report was created by Charlie Wolf, who pointed out that Apple's growth is three times that of the overall, worldwide market for computers. The article itself is concerned that Wolf might have been too fair to Apple, since Macs only represent about 5% of that total market in the last quarter.

The challenge, though, is that Wolf is talking about two things: the overall growth of personal computers against the growth of Macs. Of the two numbers compared, Mac is gaining ground much more quickly than your average PC. Wolf's data isn't meant to be an apples-to-apples argument anyway. The whole point is that "PCs are still getting bigger worldwide. But, of that market, Macs are growing faster than the overall market."

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An interesting article over at CNN talks about the growth of Mac inside the worldwide market for personal computers. The original report...
 

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Isaac

TUAW, come on now. There are clearly no editors actually /editing/ this blog because this was posted not two articles down... and on top of that, the first blogger did much better at actually getting the facts of the article right. I know of gossip blogs that do better than this; TUAW needs to get it together.

November 24 2010 at 4:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James Norton

Isn't this the same story as then one posted yesterday - you even used the same graph. And your title is misleading - Mac shipments aren't outpacing the market by 3 to 1 - percentage GROWTH in mac sales is outpacing the market by 3 to 1.

November 24 2010 at 10:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
backwoodsperry

I think the title is a bit misleading but still an interesting and impressive chart.

November 24 2010 at 10:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jdog

I was thinking about buying a MacBook Pro but should I wait for the new model or just buy one now. I am using this Sony Laptop at the moment: http://tinyurl.com/2vkw7vu

November 24 2010 at 10:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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