Apple's sales in 2003 (IDC)

trydtryd
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
There must be something wrong with the IDC numbers that were just released. IDC says that Apple shipped 1 675 000 machines in 2003. According to Apples financial briefing yesterday they sold 833 000 machines during october, november and december. That leaves only 842 000 machines shipped for the rest of 2003, or approx. 280 000 pr. quarter. Surely this isn't right.

How trustworthy are IDC's numbers?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 4
    blablablabla Posts: 185member
    It was probably the US numbers.



    ( Ah you're, the professor I once had )
  • Reply 2 of 4
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member 
    Code:


    Top 5 Vendors, U.S. PC Shipments, 2003 (Preliminary)



    (Units Shipments are in thousands)





    2003 2003 Market 2002 Market Growth

    Rank Vendor Shipments Share Shipments Share 2003/2002

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------



    1 Dell 16,319 30.9% 13,326 28.0% 22.5%

    2 HP 10,851 20.6% 9,292 19.5% 16.8%

    3 IBM(d) 2,748 5.2% 2,541 5.3% 8.1%

    4 Gateway(d) 1,987 3.8% 2,725 5.7% -27.1%

    5 Apple 1,675 3.2% 1,679 3.5% -0.2%



    Others 19,158 36.3% 18,030 37.9% 6.3%



    All Vendors 52,739 100.0% 47,592 100.0% 10.8%





    Mega-ouch for Gateway.



    Apple's 2003 US marketshare: 3.18%

    Apple's 2002 US marketshare: 3.53%
  • Reply 3 of 4
    bungebunge Posts: 7,329member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Eugene

    Apple's 2003 US marketshare: 3.18%

    Apple's 2002 US marketshare: 3.53%



    Instead of marketshare, what are the numbers of installed user base? How many PCs were in use in 2002 vs 2003? Is Apple's growth greater or smaller than the growth of the overall installed user base?
  • Reply 4 of 4
    trydtryd Posts: 143member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bunge

    Instead of marketshare, what are the numbers of installed user base? How many PCs were in use in 2002 vs 2003? Is Apple's growth greater or smaller than the growth of the overall installed user base?



    And how big marketshare do they have in the markets where they compete. Apple doesn't compete in the market for cash-registers, but they are also counted in the PC marketshare as they are usually cheap PCs.



    That is much more meaningful. Harley-Davidson has a very small share of the motor vehicle sales. In the truck-category they have 0% market share (as do Ferarri) since they don't compete in that market. Still - trucks are also motor vehicles.
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