Apple had yet another phenomenal quarter, selling 11 million iPods, 6.8 million iPhones, and 2.6 million Macs this time around. Apple posted revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per diluted share. This is up from $6.22 billion and net quarterly profit of $904 million, or $1.01 per diluted more »

Apple, growing now at exponential rates, has passed the 10% marketshare mark, landing at 10.4%.

Apple is growing in leaps and bounds in an economy where few companies are. This time last year, Apple’s market share was at 7.5% of the industry, and the year before, they had 5.4%. That means that between 2006 and 2007, Apple grew 2.1%, and between 2007 and 2008 they grew 3.9%, nearly doubling the rate of growth.

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According to NetApplications, Mac OS X and Safari are continuing their upward climb on the market share ladder. In May, Mac OS X saw a 0.45% climb in market share to 7.83%, with Safari seeing an 0.44% jump to 6.25%. Safari for Windows has been growing quite a bit in past months, but it’s a more »

A study by NPD on sales figures of PCs in brick and mortar stores shows that Mac units despite going beyond the $1000 price markup, is still gaining leads over the declining sales of Windows PC. In fact, Windows PC notebooks showed zero percent growth as compared to Apple notebooks which have gained a 50 to 60 percent growth for the first quarter of 2008. For the desktop PC sales category, Apple’s Mac units showed a 45% growth, despite the 25% decline in the overall market performance, which was reflected in the sales of Windows desktop PCs for the same period.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicts that the new MacBook Air will take a mere 16% of the Mac market share by the end of 2008. After conducting a survey with Apple resellers, the outcome was that interest in the product is very high, due to the thing factor, but sales will be modest. After Gene Munster talked to 20 Apple specialists he gave his thoughts to the press:

According to the resellers we spoke to, the MacBook Air has a smaller but separate target market than the MacBook. Most described the market as a group that prioritizes mobility and is less price sensitive than the MacBook market. One reseller referred to MacBook Air as the first “Executive Mac.” ~ Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray

Information technology research firm Gartner is forecasting Mac market share to double by 2011. By 2011, Apple will double its U.S. and Western Europe unit market share in Computers. Apple’s gains in computer market share reflect as much on the failures of the rest of the industry as on Apple’s success. Apple is challenging its more »

Net stats are basically statistics of what operating systems are being used to browse the internet, these are provided by a company called Net Applications, who specialize in delivering internet statistics. In November 2007, the Mac user share had reached an all-time high of 6.8%. The latest reports from Net Applications confirm that in just more »