Comments on: NPD: Forget the iPhone, Mac shipments are up

Apple's market share in the PC industry jumped a couple of points in May, although the numbers exclude Dell's total shipments.

[MadKiwi]

"don't include direct sales"

So therefore Dell sales are not counted, and presumably Apple Store too? Doesn't really make the figures that useful.

[Thomas, David]

Re:You are so right

The numbers are meaningless without those numbers. I'd venture
to guess there is a lot of business by Dell (including
Alienware), and Apple. I have a funny feeling that Apples website
sales are very significant. In addition, I believe that would be true
for Dell as well.

[MaLvaDo39]

Trends matter

Although numbers can be tweaked, focus more on the trends.

Apple is growing.

[ScottMo]

Two months?

While trends do indeed matter, two months hardly constitutes a "trend". Apple is merely regaining what it lost from January to April.

[calpundit]

Is there a better measure?

First an omission from the story -- While Dell's figures, it's true,
are excluded, so, too are those from Apple's substantial online
business. (or, for that matter, the online stores of other
manufacturers).

More to the point, is there any market share measure out there
that includes these figures, so we can get an Apples to Dells to
HP comparison?

I agree with the sentiment that the trend line is a good measure,
but it would be nice to get the full picture.

[Arrgster]

I didn't want vista

So I bought this macbook (which I'm using to write this note) and I couldn't be happier. Takes a little getting used to the single clicker, but then again you can use regular mouse and that problem is solved. Other than that what the heck do I need a vista box for..

[chabig83]

Why you need Vista

"what the heck do I need a vista box for...?

Spyware compatibility, of course!

[unabutthead]

PC's. Mac's. Bla, bla, bla.

Mac's are PC's. Apple makes nice hardware. I bought a PowerBook Pro expressly to run Vista. I have Mac OS on a small partition and boot it up occasionally to load up a Unix terminal session whenever I'm feeling nostalgic.

[BrandonEubanks]

??????????

I agree that macs are PC's in the sense of "personal computer".
However, I don't see the difference between the apple hardware
and wintel hardware especially now that they have all moved to
intel processors. By the way, you brought a Macbook Pro, not a
PowerBook Pro (Power refers to the power PC processors used in
those lines). Honestly, if you are using Vista and not running OS
X, you are missing out on the best part of the computer. The OS
X interface and functionality is as of 10.4 (~2 years old by the
way) on par with Vista in nearly every way. 10.5 (Leopard) is
going to leap frog Vista right after it comes out. I have used
both Vista (in Beta) and OS X and Vista to me has nothing that
would make me even want to switch.

[ethana2]

Ha. You got screwed.

The inflexibility of apple hardware AND the overpriced, worthless Vista. Good job.

I didn't pay a cent for the best OS on my machine, and the graphical effects of compiz fusion are better, imo, than aero and qwartz combined.

I didn't even have to sign away my digital rights.
Best part for you, perhaps: Linux can run on your Mac natively- even if it happened to be a ppc.

Naturally I don't worry about things like photoshop or illustrator either. But I won't go there right now. [e-mail]