Feb 01

Double Share Of The US PC Market For Apple, In Just 3 Years

Although it may seem unreal to some, I think Gartner's prediction regarding Apple's market share growth in the coming years should prove accurate, when the time to draw the line comes. While the reason may not be Apple's performance itself, since Microsoft's failure to deliver an OS able to draw more users, or at least keep existing ones, also pushes Apple's sales forward, the future looks bright for the Cupertino-based company. How bright? Let's see the expectations...
Apple Mac Pro computer

At this time, Apple Inc.'s share of the US personal computer market is pushing its way past the 6.1 percent mark, with Leopard's good performance and excellent customer satisfaction rate, as well as the company's increasing popularity, being two solid reasons behind this evolution, combined with Microsoft's "help" that I just mentioned above.

In the future, it is expected for Apple's market share to go above 12 percent (in the US, as I said already), but Gartner also predicted in its raport called "Key Predictions for IT Organisations and Users in 2008 and Beyond" that Apple's market share of the Western Europe computer market should double by 2011.

At last, one very interesting prediction of the report named above is that, by 2012, 80 percent of all commercial software will include elements of open-source technology. These being said, I hope we won't collide with any comet in the near future, because otherwise, the coming years look pretty interesting, at least when talking about the IT field...