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dea@astral.magic.ca (Don Andrachuk) writes:

>In article <4drq9g$4l7@s-cwis.unomaha.edu>, issa@cwis.unomaha.edu (Issa
>El-Hazin) wrote:

>>These figures are for selected quarters. How about for a whole year!
>>
>>Last time I checked, the industry's overall growth rate is around 25%, 
>>I beleive. If Apple only gained 20%, then they are losing market share.

> You believe wrong. The latest available numbers are for Q3/95:


I don't think so. Nobody is discussing a single quarter here (Q3 95). 
The 20% is for the whole 95-96 business year. Check Apple's home page 
for confirmations.

I see you have the same mentality as a gambling addict. By that I mean, 
if a gambling addict lost $100,000 in one year but one $5,000 during the 
same year, he/she will see that they are ahead $5,000.

Anyway, the original poster is the one that reported the 20% (which
is correct according to Apple.) I was pointing out this figure is 
not that great when compared to the whole computer industry.

Yeah, Q3 was very good for Apple, but I think it's time to move on
to the latest data.


>--------------------------

>Source: International Data Corporation, Personal
>Systems Group, Q4 1995.
> 
>Table 3 - Top 10 Worldwide Desktop PC Vendors,
>Q3 1995 (Thousands of Units)
> 
>             Q3/95  %      Q3/94   %        Yr/Yr
>Rank Vendor  Ship.  Share  Ship.   Share    Growth
> 
>1    Apple   1,123  9.5%   857     9.2%     31%
>2    Compaq  1,050  8.9%   902     9.7%     16%
>3    IBM       916  7.7%   839     9.0%      9%
>4    Pack.
>     Bell      802  6.8%   621     6.6%     29%
>5    HP        501  4.2%   189     2.0%    165%
>6    Dell      427  3.6%   286     3.1%     50%
>7    NEC       402  3.4%   233     2.5%     72%
>8    Acer      400  3.4%   296     3.2%     35%
>9    Gateway   311  2.6%   228     2.4%     36%
>10   Fujitsu
>     /ICL      283  2.4%   110     1.2%    157%
> 
>     Total
>     Market 11,831 100.0% 9,342  100.0%     27%
> 
>Shipments are branded shipments and exclude OEM sales
>for all vendors.  Data for all vendors are reported
>for calendar periods.

>--------------------------

>As you can see, the market as a whole gained 27% but Apple gained *31%*.
>That, of course, means they are *gaining* market share.

>>The Mac is Number two in the Web server market according to Apple. 
>>According to the exprts, Apple rankes 4th - behind Unix, NT, and 
>>Windows 3.x/95. 

>"Experts?" I'm not sure who your "experts" are, but according to the
>Sept/95 WebCrawler survey of approx. 45,000 web servers, Macs were indeed
>the #2 most popular server platform.


I read what I wrote above in two different computer magazines during
the last month or so. As a matter of fact, these two magazines worte 
that even though Apple claims that the Mac is the number 2 most popular
WWW server, the studies showes that the Mac is fourth. (Or something
along these lines.)

Don't ask me where I read the above (it was in reliable magazines as
far as I recall.) On average, I read about 30 computer magazines a
month, so that's why I'm not going to try tracing these articles.

May be somebody else can give pointers. 


>-- 
>Don Andrachuk
>DEA Systems


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