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Breaks 20 per cent barrier in the US and ten per cent barrier worldwide

Apple's market share in the US has broken the 20 per cent market for the first time in its history as it continues to reap the rewards of Mac sell-through from its iPod and iPhone businesses. That's according to Piper Jaffray's chief Apple analyst, Gene Munster.

Muster said in his latest investment note that he believes Apple Mac's now account for 21 per cent in the US consumer market, adding that he expects it to continue to grow for the foreseeable future.

He also noted that it isn't just in the US that Apple is breaking new ground, with him saying he believes Apple has broken the ten per cent barrier in worldwide for the first time too.

Munster cited the change in Apple's prospects came after it shifted to Intel-based Macs with sales increasing by 37 per cent during the first year – more double the PC industry's average growth rate of 15 per cent.

He also confirm the belief that Macs are more expensive than equivalent PCs. However, he said that while consumers often believe they are around 20 to 30 per cent more expensive, they are actually more often 16 per cent more expensive for desktops and just nine per cent for laptops.

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posted by Chris Jul 28, 2008 at 7:12 pm

This is from an actual magazine?

From the bottom of this page:
"PC Retail incorporating CTO is the only trade magazine dedicated to home computing.
"With an emphasis on quality editorial, PC Retail is the one stop shop for news, issues and products in the home computing channel, making it the trade magazine of choice for UK PC retailers, resellers and system builders."

Have you heard of PROOFREADING? The typos and grammatical errors in this piece are frightening.

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OSX is just linux with a proprietary GUI

posted by Ryan Wilson Sep 02, 2008 at 6:01 pm

All Mac's success is really based of its marketing of Leopard and at the end of the day juts Linux with a proprietary gui. So what this article really should be saying is Microsoft has fallen below the 90% barrier and Linux has hit ~12%

Microsft Still rules

posted by Bob Newbie Sep 02, 2008 at 6:07 pm

VISTA 64BIT FTW!

Re: OSX is just linux with a proprietary GUI

posted by Matt Wilson Nov 04, 2008 at 5:23 pm

Uh ... WRONG! OS X is Unix based, not Linux based. In fact, OS X is based on the Mach kernel and is derived from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) of which development started back in 1977.(developed a LONG time before Linux came along.) If you want an open-source comparison then you might be better refering to freebsd.

posted by Bud Man Jul 02, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Boy, you Linux types are desperate. "Just a proprietary GUI"? A UI that has twenty-five years of development and was the subject of perhaps the most important lawsuit in computing history is clearly the merest bagatelle to you. As is the difference between Linux and BSD!

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