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- From: fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry)
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- Subject: Re: Apple Unit Sales to Pass IBM in '92 (from Mac
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.193155.17356@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 00:31:53 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov11.193155.17356
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- In article <TTN.92Nov11063806@kivikkorastas.cs.tut.fi> ttn@cs.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.163321.19676@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
- >
- > Apple is expected to pass IBM Corp. in worldwide personal computer
- > unit sales for the first time in 1992, according to International Data
- > Corp. Through nine months of 1992, Apple has shipped 2.03 million
- > units, while IBM has shipped 1.85 million.
- >
- > 1990 1991 1992 Estimate (Source: I.D.C.)
- > Apple 1.69 million 2.48 million 3 million
- > IBM 2.84 million 2.91 million 2.9 million
- >
- >It would be nice to know just how much of the total PC sales does IBM
- >make. That might put things in a quite different light.
-
- It might, but the figures show completely that Apple and IBM are
- heading in different directions. Consider also that the price per
- share of Apple and IBM stocks are approaching each other, something
- unthinkable a few years ago without a split in IBM stock. Yes, I know
- there are many more outstanding shares of IBM, but the point is that
- it was once thought that if IBM fell below $100/share, the world would
- come to an end.
-
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