Apple's iOS sales are nearly ahead of Windows PCs

[Peter Farkas]

Favoritism aside, the technology market is changing... I have been using my wife as a willing technology test subject for some time and I am surprised to say she has gravitated towards her android phone over her laptop and over her tablet. My sister in law has dropped the PC and uses a tablet, so I surmise from this if you don't need the bells and whistles of a full formed Windows or Mac device you can easily manage with the latest phone or tablet. I also have to admit if I didn't have old eyes my tablet and UHD phone would at the least replace my PC's for internet and email... in fact the latest Samsung's and iPhones are incredibly powerful, I would say easily beating 10 year old PC technology, in fact I have to ask where is the "wonder" when you look at the latest phones and tablets, I have worked in the IT realm for over 3 decades and certainly never expected my phone to out perform my PC. Love it or hate it its a great time to be involved in the technology realm... This is certainly more exciting than Java.

Having mobile devices that outperform 10 year old PCs isn't suprising. Moore's law...

Though you made me wonder how would a mobile device today outperform a 2005 GTX7800SLI config...
I think the comparison is only fair if you compare today's top of the line mobile devices with top of the line PCs 10 years ago.

 

[Julio Franco]

Decent amount of Macs? Please define "decent amount"... is it decent amount in comparison with the number of Windows based PCs?

From the article: "Apple's Mac OS X computers make up less than 13.4 percent of the market, behind Dell and HP." 13% of the desktop/laptop PC market seems decent to me.

 

[Peter Farkas]

From the article: "Apple's Mac OS X computers make up less than 13.4 percent of the market, behind Dell and HP." 13% of the desktop/laptop PC market seems decent to me.

My understanding is that this just means13% of the OEM PC OS !!sales!!, not the total number of PCs running worldwide (just because it is compared with Dell and HP), which only means they had a good year of sales but their global market share is still a question to me. I just want to clarify these misleading, manipulative figures which are being emphasized days before Win10 is released, hence noone is buying Win8.1 based system now, as others have accurately pointed this before me as well.
I was in the belief that the global market share of MAC OS X (not the recent sales share!!) was only about 3-4%. Do we have figures on that?

Thanks for the heads up Julio!

 

[Burty117]

Decent amount of Macs? Please define "decent amount"... is it decent amount in comparison with the number of Windows based PCs?

From the article: "Apple's Mac OS X computers make up less than 13.4 percent of the market, behind Dell and HP." 13% of the desktop/laptop PC market seems decent to me.

Surely this must be just in the American Market? No way has Apple managed to gain over 13% of the market world wide? It's a terrible Operating System

 

[Julio Franco]

Yes, that's an approximate for US market share. Here are some recent stats for US and worldwide shipments. This come from market research firms which are rough estimates.

 

[Peter Farkas]

Thanks Julio, that clarifies a lot, but this is still only about shipments, meaning it's only the sales statistics for a specific quarter.
I wonder what the global PC market share (not sales for a quarter) is for Apple. I am sure it's a microscopic share given that Microsoft has been dominating that market for more than 2 decades now.
Apple dominates the mobile device market and I don't see any product/service that would change this in the foreseeable future.

 

[DelJo63]

@Peter Farkas

given that Microsoft has been dominating that market for more than 2 decades now....

Apple dominates the mobile device market

bravo - - that's correct and Apple is making this it's new niche market.

 

[Guest]

In related news, the Toyota Prius is now outselling all Harley Davidsons.

 

[DelJo63]

LOL

 

[Peter Farkas]

In related news, the Toyota Prius is now outselling all Harley Davidsons.

LOL

 

[Mike89]

This is just hard for me to believe apply pc's are on par with Windows PC's. Personally I wouldn't touch an Apple product period because of all the proprietary bullshit. I'm not an Apply fanboy.

 

[Peter Farkas]

This is just hard for me to believe apply pc's are on par with Windows PC's. Personally I wouldn't touch an Apple product period because of all the proprietary bullshit. I'm not an Apply fanboy.

Dude, whre did you read that they are on par? You are getting it totally wrong mate...