{"id":678,"date":"2007-10-18T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/apples-bite-of-the-market\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T16:40:55","slug":"apples-bite-of-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/apples-bite-of-the-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s Bite of the Market"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTop 5 Vendors, United States PC Shipments
\nThird Quarter 2007 (Preliminary)
\n(Units Shipments are in thousands)<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n

Rank<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Vendor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3Q07
<\/br>
\nShipments<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Market
<\/br>
\nShare<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3Q06
<\/br>
\nShipments<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Market
<\/br>
\nShare<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3Q07\/3Q06
<\/br>
\nGrowth<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n

\n

<\/br><\/td>\n

\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Dell<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

5,010<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

28.0%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

5,260<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

30.9%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

-4.8%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

HP<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

4,346<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

24.3%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3,718<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

21.8%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

16.9%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

3<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Apple<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1,127<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

6.3%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

973<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

5.7%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

15.9%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Toshiba<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

940<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

5.2%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

805<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

4.7%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

16.7%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Gateway<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

865<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

4.8%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1,009<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

5.9%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

-14.2%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n

Others<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

5,633<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

31.4%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

5,272<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

30.9%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

6.9%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n
<\/br><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
<\/br><\/td>\n		\n

All Vendors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

17,922<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

100.0%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

17,037<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

100.0%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

5.2%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/center>
\nThe table above was published by IDC yesterday<\/a> and shows US market share for the top 5 vendors (note: there was a global table as well, but Apple was not broken out in that table as it is not in the top 5 vendors globally.) I went looking for this information because I was struck by the photo posted below:
\n
\n

College Class at the Univeristy of Missouri (click to enlarge)
\"Photo<\/a><\/center>
\n
\nThis is a non-random, small demographic, a single lecture hall with a single class at the University of Missouri, but, do you think the market share is greater than 6.3% in that classroom (note that the little white dots on the laptop lids indicate that the computer is an Apple.) Also, it’s interesting to observe that this is a very young crowd, I wonder what Apple marketshare is by age group? I’m tending to think it’s skewed toward youth. When I look at Apple’s market cap of $150B I tend to think “this stock is way over-valued” but then I see an image like this and think: if Apple is dominating the under 25-crowd and the total marketshare is only 6.3%, and the iPhone and iPod continue their growth path, isn’t it possible that Apple could double or triple it’s market footprint over the next few years? An interesting thought…
\n
\nWhat do you think, is Apple fairly valued? Over-valued? Under-valued? What do you think the marketshare might look like in 5 years time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top 5 Vendors, United States PC Shipments Third Quarter 2007 (Preliminary) (Units Shipments are in thousands) Rank Vendor 3Q07 Shipments Market Share 3Q06 Shipments Market Share 3Q07\/3Q06 Growth 1 Dell 5,010 28.0% 5,260 30.9% -4.8% 2 HP 4,346 24.3% 3,718 21.8% 16.9% 3 Apple 1,127 6.3% 973 5.7% 15.9% 4 Toshiba 940 5.2% 805 4.7% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}