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Apple portables set to dominate latter half of 2011

by Chris Rawson Aug 8th 2011 at 4:30PM

According to Fortune, financial analysts from Deutsche Bank are predicting a rise in Apple's global portable computer sales for the rest of this year. If the iPad is included in those numbers, the rise is downright astonishing, taking Apple from last place among the six vendors studied all the way up to first.

Including the iPad in this analysis may seem a questionable move, but if you want to get technical about it the device is a portable computer. Analysis shows that even if the iPad isn't included in these numbers, Apple is still poised to see huge gains in 2011 thanks to the release of OS X Lion and high demand for the MacBook Air.

At the same time that Apple is expected to see sales and market share gains, every other PC maker is showing steep declines in Deutsche Bank's analysis. The firm cites "stagnation" in the Microsoft/PC market and notes that so-called "Ultrabooks" are not yet price-competitive with Apple's MacBook Air. The situation is even grimmer in the tablet market, which can still be handily summarized as "iPad... and then everything else."

Apple has warned investors to expect a decline in revenues for the next quarter due to a product transition. Without knowing what that transition is, we have no way of knowing how it will dampen the huge gains that Deutsche Bank and other financial analysts are predicting for the rest of the "Year of the iPad 2."



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Buzz Mega

Whenever you see a hockey stick like that in a data chart, you would be wise to suspect that it's either a fluke or a fib rather than a fact. They do happen, but they're rare. What will that chart look like in another year? Question everything.

August 08 2011 at 7:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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FalKirk

You are not reading the chart correctly which is not surprising because it is a very confusing chart. The first part of the chart shows sales without the iPad and only the circled part of the chart shows what would happen if iPad sales were added in. (Note how the sales of all other devices in the circle dip.) Since there were 9.2 million iPads sold in the past quarter, the "hockey stick" in the chart is not surprising at all.

August 08 2011 at 8:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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tatonka8181

The chart is misleading and quite frankly plain stupid.

First of .. you are comparing Apples and Oranges since you trace the sales of PC's over years and then mix in the iPad for only a single timepoint. The iPad is available for a while now and should be added onto the sales numbers from that point on.

Second .. if you add the iPad .. you should be adding the Galaxy tab, the Dell streaks, you name it, as well. Apple would probably still come out on top, but at least the comparison would make a little sense. If you add the iPad, you should also add the iPod touches, the iPhone, the HTC Sensation and so on .. if the iPad is a computer .. then those device are computers too, so why omit those.

T.

August 09 2011 at 2:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down
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