![]() ![]() ![]() Apple grew sales by 38% which was third behind HP and Asus and about equal with Lenovo in Q4 2007. Apple was ninth in global laptop sales and every other manufacturer - with the exception of Toshiba - grew sales by over 30% in 2007. as the iPhone will too.Īs for Macs, in case you missed the news, while Apple's laptop sales have been consistently up by 34% for the last couple of years, the rest of the PC laptop industry's sales have been down by 14%, so the Mac line is also gaining market share and will probably have majority share by 2010 if not sooner.Īctually I've studied not just the news but the global PC sales figures. When the iPod first came out many of the same people that bash on the iPhone had the same argument with the iPod that there were better MP3 players with bigger storage, cheaper prices and not locked into a certain audio format, and yet with all of that, the iPod STILL took over due to it's elegant simplicity and integration with iTunes. something Apple has been doing for years with their Macs and cell phone companies ARE just now trying to catch up to it the user experience.)Īnd it is very much like the iPod market. It's about the convergence of Apple's engineering and design with multi-touch, their OS X, their software integration, etc. (*You can't just add a touch screen and say "This is as good as an iPhone". Just about every TV show features one and now all of the other cell phone makers are trying to make their own "iPhone clone" (and failing at it so far.*) There is something to be said for all of that. The buzz, the press, the high user satisfaction. and look what happens when a company like Apple releases their first cell phone. Using your statement, "Symbian has had an SDK for years," I would say more importantly, Symbian, Windows Mobile and all of the cell phone makers have had a big head start and many, many chances to do a cell phone right. THAT's what it's all about and THAT's what the other cell companies will be playing catch up to. With all due respect, I think the thing you are missing when the previous poster said that the other phone companies will be playing catch up to the iPhone is, the iPhone's user experience. ![]()
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