IDC Numbers: Apple’s Doing Just Fine, Thank you
TheAppleBlog writes:
"The first thing you have to do, as I’ve argued before, is pull Apple out of the "PC" mix, so Apple (Mac) can be compared against all the others (PC). Comparing Apple’s figures to an overall figure that includes Apple’s totals makes no sense.
In the U.S., we can pull Apple’s figures from the PC total and come up with 13,835 for 1Q ’09, and 14,297 for 1Q ’08, for PCs. Some quick math shows that to be an overall Y/Y drop of 3.23 percent.
Apple’s figures, as the number 4 vendor, show a drop of 1.22 percent.
Right off the bat you can see PC sales dropped 2 percent more than Macs. It would be hard (impossible, really), based on these numbers, to say that Apple was doing anything but better than the PC industry. And the real story goes even deeper than that."
