Apple’s share of the PC market reached nearly 10 percent during the third quarter. Although Cupertino retained the third position in U.S. shipments, Apple posted 29 percent growth, outstripped all other computer makers.
Gartner announced Apple controlled 9.5 percent of domestic PC sales, up from 7.7 percent a year ago. In stark contrast to Dell and HP which had 6 percent and 4 percent growth respectively, Apple had a more than 29 percent increase during the third quarter of 2008.
Apple sold 1.6 million Macs during the third quarter, up from 1.2 million shipped the previous year.
Tuesday, Apple unveiled a lower-priced entry MacBook onlookers saw as a response to concerns of slowing consumer spending. The company has set Oct. 21 to release third quarter sales figures.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
4 responses to “Gartner: Mac Market Nears 10 Percent For Third Quarter”
Interesting that Apple seems to be stealing from the “Other” category only. There’s another 20,8% to steal though, which would make Apple no. one :-)
They won’t steal from HP & Dell as they cover the corporate market.
No multi-national would purchase Mac’s as with Windows you can easily change your hardware supplier with minimum fuss, if you decide to either move to or away from Apple the costs are crippling.