3% of my ass…

alternateorg on September 22, 2004

Market share, shmarket mare.

According to market tracker IDC, in 2003 Apple sold 193,000 Macs to people in colleges and universities, a jump of 17.7% over the previous year. If you only consider laptops, the computer of choice for most new college students, Apple sales to higher education grew by 58.5% in the same period.

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14 Replies to “3% of my ass…”

  1. Anh September 23, 2004 at 1:15 am

    are their servers included in this? It seems like apple servers are selling hotter than ever, and not because it’s G5 powered!

  2. pil September 23, 2004 at 5:10 am

    I would guess that xservers don’t even hold a full percent. though my work has 8 of them now…and an xsan as of next year february

  3. Kyle September 23, 2004 at 3:30 pm

    Speaking from experience (as I’m at College now), most college students opt for desktops over laptops. I have two roomates, me and one roomate solely have desktops, and my other roomate has a laptop. Probably a quarter to a third of students at my school bring laptops with them, including those who have both a desktop and a laptop.

  4. pil September 23, 2004 at 5:42 pm

    where do you goto “college”?

  5. Kyle September 23, 2004 at 6:06 pm

    Rochester Institute of Technology. I go there for Information Technology.

  6. pil September 24, 2004 at 12:52 pm

    IT eh? You should do something more challenging, like computer engineering. At least you’d be able to find a good paying job with that degree, presuming you aren’t an idiot.

  7. Kyle September 24, 2004 at 3:07 pm

    I like IT, and I don’t have to choose any specializations for 2 years.

  8. pil September 24, 2004 at 9:28 pm

    Presuming you’re not an idiot.

  9. Kyle September 25, 2004 at 2:21 am

    I’m doint IT because I don’t want to be a programmer full-time. IT gives me the flexibiilty to do what I WANT to do, whether it be netadmin, sysadmin, game designer, web designer, database, OS scripting, etc. And RIT has the nation’s first (and best) Information Technology program.

  11. pil September 25, 2004 at 3:01 am

    Presuming you are not an idiot.

  12. Kyle September 25, 2004 at 1:19 pm

    . . . shut up.

  13. say September 29, 2004 at 10:48 pm

    I’m a total retard and have nothing to add to this conversation.

  14. trk October 1, 2004 at 1:38 pm

    Not that funny. And if you really believe it’s that funny, its because your pathetic platform needs shit loads of support and ours doesn’t.

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