Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

[Richard Gaskin]

Judy Perry wrote:
> We're gonna need heat shields for aluminum-cased laptops...

Your Mac laptop doesn't already double as a lap warmer?  I cook 
breakfast on mine.

But think of the heat if they tried to squeeze a G6 into a laptop.  Like 
Jobs says, more horsepower per watt.

> And, wasn't it you who recently told another poster that s/he was wrong
> about the 2% marketshare quote?

The figures I've read were about 2.5% worldwide, with 4% in US, Japan, 
and Sweden.  Those came from either Gartner or Forrester, and all I know 
about how the figures were derived is that they were "based on unit 
sales", whatever that means (does a user putting Linux on a Wintel box 
get counted twice?).

This afternoon Jeanne DeVoto sent me this encouraging item:

    According to a statement released earlier this year, Apple Computer
    reported their 2005 first quarterly revenue and net income as the
    highest in the history of their company, with 74% revenue growth.
    Apple shipped 1,046,000 Macintosh units during this quarter,
    representing a 26% increase in CPU units over the year-ago quarter.
    According to US News and World Report, Macintosh owners buy 30%
    more software than their Windows counterparts. Further, Macintosh
    software comprises over 18% of all software sold, according to
    the Software and Information Industry Association. In addition,
    the Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16 percent
    of computer users are on Macs.
    <http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5933/>

I haven't seen how those figures were derived either, but it raises an 
interesing question:

If Apple, for the first time since Jobs came back, not only returned to 
the 10% marketshare of a decade ago but actually exceeded it by another 
6 points, why wouldn't Apple be shouting this from the rooftops.

If memory serves, at 16% this would mean we currently have the largest 
marketshare in the history Mac history.


I'd love to see Gartner/Forrester and the SPA duke it out and come up 
with one number we can believe.

I have too many deadlines today to do it -- anyone want to send them 
both a goading email to prompt either one or both of the to get their 
poop in a pile?

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