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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Mac market share stalled at 1.9 percent in 2004

According to market researchers at IDC, PC vendors shipped 177.5 million units during 2004, up 14.7 percent from the 154.7 million units shipped in 2003. Apple, meanwhile, shipped 3.504 million units, up 13 percent from the 3.098 million units the company shipped in 2003.

Using these numbers, Apple's market share for 2004 was almost exactly 2 percent. That's .1 percent higher than Apple's 2003 market share of 1.9 percent. Sounds good.

However, another big name market researcher, Gartner, puts PC sales in 2004 at 189 million units. Since we'll never be able to figure out which one of these yearly numbers is accurate, let's split the difference at 183.25 million units. So Apple's share of the overall PC market is 1.9 percent, exactly the same as its market share in 2003.

Will the Mac mini change the equation? I think so, making this year quite interesting.

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