Apple’s 6.6 Percent

The global economic growth is clearly slowing down, and some pessimists even speak about crises here and there. Anyway, a clear fact is that while computer sales seem to have lost some of the pushing force shown in the last few years, Apple's sales are not following the same pattern. How's that possible? Well, there are plenty of reasons, but I'll leave them aside, so we can talk about the numbers, because numbers are also very interesting to study.


Even the US recession didn't really hit PC shipments in the first quarter of the year, and according to Gartner, the worldwide PC market even went up with 12 percent during this period!

Looking at the figures closely, here's what we have - 71.1 million units sold in the first quarter, exactly 12.3 percent up, compared to the first quarter of 2007, with HP extending its lead (18.3 percent growth), but in the US market, Dell proved to be the strongest manufacturer, followed by HP, Acer, and Apple.

Finally, let me tell you about Apple's 6.6 percent! I find it really impressive to see that Apple climbed above Toshiba in the US market, reaching this percent, compared to 5.2 percent last year, when Toshiba had 5.4 percent of the market in control. The estimations show over 1 million Macs shipped in the first quarter, compared to 840,000 Toshiba computers. Not bad at all, don't you agree?