PC sales down in Q1, Apple loses market share

@Evilhomer…you’re a douche! I see you cry on here every time something doesn’t go your way. It’s not our fault Apple is overpriced and pushed themselves out of the mainstream. Go cry to them instead of to the people on here that just state the obvious. The numbers speak for themselves d-bag. You now have my permission to come back with one of your lame comebacks.

Apple lost market share…

As in Dell sold tons of the little inspiron 9 thingys at 200 bucks. If you are going to include the netbooks in the count then of course Apple are going to lose market share. I mean you can buy nearly 5 of these things for the price of a basic MacBook.

However, profit is what actually counts, and Dell are in the dumpster at the moment. Good for consumers. For the companies not so good. Rim are selling tons of Blackberrys – tiz true – but how many are being shifted in the “buy one get one free” adverts they have been running on telly since Jan?

This is a wonderful talking point for M$ and it’s fans but it is a very short term view. Wave the flag and all – but let’s see where we are in a year’s time, eh?

Not surprised. PC looks for waits to make their computers cheaper while Apple looks for ways to make them more expensive.

@rattyuk…in regards to RIM. Have you seen their latest financial statement? They are doing something right, they are showing growth in units and $!

i would be really interested to see the usage statistics for cracked OS X installations, especially in the crappy economy. Personally, my next “Mac” will be a Hackintosh. Can’t justify spending that kind of money for what little I get. I need expansion, and Apple won’t give it to me unless i spend $2500 dollars. Sorry, think i’ll build a nice hackintosh that has enough PCIe slots for all my audio stuff. Havent had enough slots on macs since the PowerMac 9600.
It wont look as “cool” and i’ll spend more time maintaining it, but im tired of Apple sacrificing function for form.

My next laptop will be a decent “PC” that will be stripped of it’s OS and replaced with Ubuntu. That way I get security and stability without having to pay the apple prices. $2000 for a 15 in laptop from apple seem way overpriced. I recently found a lappy with tons of ram, HD, great graphics card, beautiful screen, blu-ray, BT and more for under $1000. I understand this solution won’t work for everyone but I’m glad it works for me.

Inmy last 30+ years as a both a consumer and a professional in IT some things have not changed. Apple zealots still thinks they are great, PC’s still rule, and Apple market share is poor. I can get a PC configred anyway I want, much greater software selection and if I don’t want to be tied to a manufacturer just build it myself. If you don’t want all the bloatware, look at small vendors like Velocity Micro, Vista 64bit, necessary drivers, Adobe reader and NOTHING else but all the original CD’s and manuals. Stable, fast and no more expensive than an HP or Dell and way less than a MAC.

So in a “depression” one product would sell less and be able to use that as an excuse but how then do you explain the PC growth during said “depression”.

Oh we are nowhere near a depression and if the public could have gotten the real news about the economy back in Sept, we never would have had such a huge sell off of stocks and people stopping paying their bills, companies wouldn’t have laid off as many people. But those who wanted to create political hay, ensured that the economic news was slanted to allow them to railroad the public. The GAO said in Sept, that the worst was over and that even without the billions and billions of dollars wasted in “stimulus” that the economy would bottom and begin to recover in the middle of 2009.

Shame that not a single major media outlet chose to cover that public report.