Apple Mac enterprise numbers surge in June

By on Aug 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM
General August 23, 2010

While Macs are ever-popular with students and consumers, enterprises have traditionally been more of an uphill battle for a number of reasons; and government sales pretty much don’t exist. Needham & Co.’s Charlie Wolfe, in a note to clients, broke down the latest market share numbers by category. According to IDC’s latest report for Q2, Mac sales grew 35% compared to the standard market growth rate of 20.9%. Wolfe notes that Mac shipments in government, however, grew an astonishing 200%; sixteen times more than market growth of 12.1%. Enterprise growth was also successful at a 49.8% increase which is over three times higher than the market’s 15.7%. Additionally, Wolfe indicates Apple’s European home market share doubled between Q1 and Q2 thanks to in large part to the iPhone.

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  • Agl

    Once again, another pro-apple poll just using percentages, but no real numbers. I’m sick of this crap.

    Ok so the government bought 1 mac one quarter, and 2 macs the next.

    ZOMG 200% GROWTH!!!!11111ONEONE

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/PACMan3000/ Paul A. Chapel

      God lord, you guys are so paranoid that Apple is going to get some positive news.

      Hey, guys, I’ll let you in on a secret, there’s nothing you can do about it! Whining about Apple over the internet is not stopping people from going inside Apple Stores all over the country and enjoying Apple products.

      In the last couple years, Apple has had their greatest quarters ever, during a recession no less, and every quarter is bigger than the last. Get used to it. It’s not going away.

      • Chris

        People complain because we’re tired of hearing every little bit of Apple news. New iPod news, cool… iPhone 5 rumors, ok…. iPad update, sure why not… PowerMac refresh, yep….

        Why Steve Jobs gets away with driving without a license plate, numbers with no real substance behind them touting the greatness of Apple and any other shameless ploy to cash in on Apple’s success… NO.

        We get it, Apple is awesome. I’m a day 1 iPhone buyer (at $699 no less) and still love the phone. But for heaven’s sake, just stop it with the stories that have even a HINT of Apple in them… and for the last time, stop acting like Apple is some god sent to save us all. They make consumer electronics, not holy water.

      • Jdubbz

        +++

    • F1

      Laughing out Loud!!!

    • F1

      Take it easy!!!

      • F1

        1.1 & 1.2 were intended for AGL, but something is definitely wrong with BGR’s posting system!!

        Thank You

    • sirpaul

      totally agree…I bet some small branch decided to give macs a try, making the ‘huge growth’.

    • bonesb

      Lessee, some poster named “Agl” or a investment banking and asset management firm named Needham? Huh.

      Considering Agl can’t even get that it’s 100% growth going from 1 units to 2 units, I’ll put in with Needham’s assessment.

    • JKR

      check your math dude, the government technically bought 3X as many if its 200% growth of the previous year…

      Mac is not going to be the front runner anytime soon, but they are the biggest Tech company in the world, so their computer deserve at least an occasional story, plus apple news gets more readers than any other company, so its understandable that this comes up when their computers start doing well, even if its not very significant….

      if apple continues their current uphill climb, they will start selling more than PC’s, sooner than people expect… if that’s likely, or even a possibility, isss up to debate I guess….

      tone it down haters, just -___- (chill)

      XD

  • Android

    This study is bogus.

  • mike

    Government is smart, they know what they doing this time around

  • TypicalAppleHatingDBAG

    APPLE SUCKS!!!! WE ALL KNOW THE GOVERNMENT IS USING DROIDS. LOL…you guys are unreal.

  • Android

    I’m guessing they didn’t count netbooks in this survey, hence the skewed results.

    • JKR

      pretty sure that netbooks aren’t being used anywhere in the government…. they still use stuff like PDA’s… hey maybe the Newton XD

  • delusion ftl

    Bogus play on numbers and percentages to get a point across that likely doesn’t exist.

    For example governments could have bought 2000 macs instead of just 1000 from the previous period. And bought 3 million pc’s instead of 2.8 million. PC shipments only grew modestly (200K total) mac shipments doubled (1K total), Yet mac is still immaterial in the market.

    I work in a major government. We don’t buy hardly any macs and have not plans to do so in the future.

    What you should really look at is that mac shipments grew less in one area they actually have a slight material impact on the market and that’s education.

    • T Man

      I thought the exact same thing when looking at these numbers, as they are only percentage growth. When you are at a low number already, huge gains in percentage growth are possible with very little unit increases. Even moderate growth in the PC sector will well outstrip huge Mac gains. If these figures had shown negative PC growth and several hundred percentage point increases on the Mac side, we would have a story.

      When I glanced the title and saw the bogus graph, I already knew who was the poster of this claptrap.

      • jawman

        Haha Boy Genius you are so bogus

  • MacMan

    Who cares about education. The way the economy is looking who can afford a proper education these days.

  • Toddfromalbes

    That’s right bitches

  • pjcamp

    200% of nothing is still nothing.

  • John

    @delusion ftl

    sounds like you work for the government: “We don’t buy hardly any macs” haha

    • Jdubbz

      Maybe he speaks more than one language and his English isn’t impeccably fluent. Many people who hold government jobs speak multiple languages. Did you ever think of that? Of course not, because you are an ignorant moron.

  • F1

    The devil is in the details,
    Apple has grown past PC in every category, except for it’s traditional core group of “Education”, could that have something to do with “Summer time”, school closures?

    Thank You

    • MicroNix

      You mean summer time school closures where upgrades of infrastructure are more likely to occur?

      • F1

        I meant the reverse effect of “back to school”, in other words the lack students purchasing new computer during the summer season.

        Thank You

  • MacMan

    I don’t know FaceTime is godly. Lol

  • Hockey88

    The article starts out with the following “Given the Mac’s tiny share of the worldwide PC market — roughly 3.5% as of June — Apple (AAPL) has a lot of room to grow.” The tiny share at approximately 3.5% of the PC Market says it all. A total distortion of the real numbers. When tiny become majority share and when 3.5% become 51%, this type of study will become meaningful. Until then total BS!

  • Osaka Osprey

    What businesses want to pay 3x the amount on computers that can’t run business applications? Let me know so I can short their stock.

    • Osaka Osprey

      Wait, I just noticed it’s the Government driving the “surge”. So it doesn’t cost them 3x as much, it’s free to them, it’s our wallets that are taking the hit. I wish I could short this current government. I’d be able to retire in a wekk.

      • Jdubbz

        Well said.

  • slammer

    I personally don’t get the numbers. This means by percentage, every person I know that bought computers, just bought a MAC. On the contrary, most everyone I know that purchased new computers within the last year, bought a PC including myself. The math is that most everyone purchases a new computer every 2 years. Who is going to shell out close to two thousand dollars for something that will be replaced within this time? Most will not.

  • Brian

    Yea another terrible “study” that uses percentages and coincidentally omits the hard numbers. We know BGR loves all things Apple but c’mon dude, this is just blatant sensationalism.

  • Apples

    and yet, the government had more than 3 million PS3s in washington………remember that story?

  • wanderer

    Haters discount anything positive with Apple, it doesn’t matter if it showed raw data, numbers, percents with bar graphs. As far as Apple posts, there were more non apple postings in the last 2 days. Apple concentrates on profit and not market share. Hey at least give credit where its due, even though you hate Apple. I don’t discount the advances of the Android OS, since its also good to have competition and a choice.

  • Joe

    So in other words, in June the government found yet another way to waste our tax money. I think they should worry about getting out of debt before going out to get a ton of trendy overpriced computers.

    • jawman

      So true!! +++

  • David

    What a tool. Without actual numbers, it’s meaningless. Pull the post.

    • jawman

      Seriously, if you were a real journalist (not some kid blogger) this would never get approval to be posted.

      • JKR

        then why are we reading this? ‘: /

  • JJFNIGHTS80

    No GOV’T isn’t going to switch to MAC one TOO EXPENSIVE. Two All U.S. GOV’t still uses Windows XP not VISTA, 7 or Mac.

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