The Macintosh is on Fire | Is it Apple or Vista?
Posted • January 21, 2008 • 7 Comments
Explaining the Macintosh Surge
A Quote by David Pogue:
At the risk of enraging the Apple bashers, I can’t keep my mouth shut any longer: Something is going on with the Macintosh.
At this week’s Macworld Expo, there were 475 exhibitors. That’s 100 more booths than last year.
There were 50,000 attendees. That’s 10,000 more people than last year.
A book publisher told me that 2007 Macintosh book sales were up by double-digit leaps over the previous year.
Gartner’s fourth-quarter 2007 research shows that Mac shipments grew 28 percent over the year before, giving it an 6.1 percent market share. (It was 3-point-something only a couple of years ago.)
According to Net Applications, use of the Mac’s Web browser, Safari, climbed 32 percent in 2007.
Apple sold 2.16 million Macs in the last quarter–a new company record.
And anecdotally—well, you probably know somebody who’s switched to the Mac recently.
David goes on to dismiss the iPod “halo effect” and people being fed up with viruses and spyware on Windows.
He lays the blame right in the lap of Windoz Longhorn OSX I mean Vista. Quoting a source as saying “Well, if I have to buy a new machine and learn a new interface, I may as well get the cool-looking, virus-free one.”
This is a very possible explanation of Apple’s gigantic 35 percent leap in just 12 months.
Sounds very plausible to me. I’m on board.
Do you have a better theory?
late,
gary pool
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