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- From: cgarnett@unix.amherst.edu (Craig Garnett)
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:08:21 GMT
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- Craig Williams (craigw@fnal.fnal.gov) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec17.191137.423@walter.cray.com>, huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
- : wrote:
- : >
- : > From the 1990 Almanac (I wish I had a later one)
- : > Sales in Millions:
- : > IBM - 59,681
- : > Apple - 4,071
- : >
- :
- : Well Troy, this year Apple sold more machines than IBM. Now I dont have
- : exact numbers, and no that does not include all the clones either, but it
- : does illustrate a graph pointing in a direction that Mac users like to look
- : at.
-
- No, Apple sold more "PC's" than IBM did. PC's aren't IBM's bread and
- butter market. They make their living off terminal servers, all those
- midrange machines, and mainframes. Plus all sorts of other stuff. \it'd
- true that Apple is doing better in the desktop machine category than IBM
- is, but that's not the whole story. And while IBM has been losing PC
- market share like crazy, very little of it has gone to Macs. Best
- guesstimate I've seen for Apple market share of new PC's is around
- 14-15%. The BIG winners in IBM's demise in the PC market have been the
- clone makers....
-
- =C
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