Apple: 3.8% and holding...

dstranathandstranathan
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New York, March 11 (Bloomberg) -- The following tables list the top retail hardware sales for the month of January, 2003. The tables are ranked by total dollar volume and unit share in descending order.





Category: Laptops ("year of the laptop"?)



Rank Brand Unit Share



1 TOSHIBA 26.6%

2 COMPAQ 24.3%

3 IBM 19.9%

4 HEWLETT PACKARD 11.4%

5 SONY 8.4%



Total Dollar Volume: $438,204,200





Category: Desktops



Rank Brand Unit Share



1 COMPAQ 31.8%

2 HEWLETT PACKARD 30.9%

3 EMACHINES 14.3%

4 IBM 7.8%

5 APPLE 3.8%



Total Dollar Volume: $435,925,200





Category: Printers



Rank Brand Unit Share



1 HEWLETT PACKARD 61.2%

2 LEXMARK 13.7%

3 EPSON 13.6%

4 CANON 5.8%

5 BROTHER 1.9%



Total Dollar Volume: $326,467,500





Category: Digital Still Cameras

(Inc. Dual cameras)



Rank Brand Unit Share



1 SONY 15.7%

2 OLYMPUS 13.5%

3 CANON 11.6%

4 KODAK 9.5%

5 LOGITECH 9.3%



Total Dollar Volume: $169,431,600





Category: PDA



Rank Brand Unit Share



1 PALM 48.2%

2 SONY 16.8%

3 COMPAQ 16.3%

4 TOSHIBA 6.8%

5 CASIO 4.2%



Total Dollar Volume: $80,317,680





Category: Camcorders



Rank Brand Unit Share



1 SONY 41.9%

2 PANASONIC 16.4%

3 CANON 15.4%

4 JVC 14.4%

5 SHARP 5.7%



Total Dollar Volume: $54,639,970





Category: Fax Machines



Rank Brand Unit Share



1 BROTHER 37.1%

2 PANASONIC 35.1%

3 HEWLETT PACKARD 14.1%

4 SHARP 13.4%

5 CANON 0.3%



Total Dollar Volume: $34,726,020



Source: The NPD Group/NPD Techworld



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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 11
    jaredjared Posts: 639member
    Is it really fair to put HP and Compaq on a list together? After all HP does own Compaq...
  • Reply 2 of 11
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,423member
    Apple needs to be in the Top 5 for Laptops as well. They'd be looking pretty good if that was the case. All in all not bad considering Apple might have much better hardware coming down the pipe.
  • Reply 3 of 11
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    how is that list even close to correct? dell's not even listed.
  • Reply 4 of 11
    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    [quote]Originally posted by Jared:

    <strong>Is it really fair to put HP and Compaq on a list together? After all HP does own Compaq...</strong><hr></blockquote>And I'm certain that together they don't have almost 2/3 of desktop computer sales. These are meaningless data, IMO.
  • Reply 5 of 11
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    [quote]Originally posted by alcimedes:

    <strong>how is that list even close to correct? dell's not even listed.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    It counts retail sales. Dell doesn't do retail.
  • Reply 6 of 11
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    This is retail... RETAIL. Not institutional, not business, not direct order, RETAIL. Point of sale, in a bricks and mortar store where a consumer walks in, picks something up and walks out.



    Doesn't mean squat about Market Share.



    Get it? Considering Apple's burgeoning retail presence, 3.8% of RETAIL desktop sales isn't that bad. But they're still getting slaughtered in marketshare, it ISN'T going up, and they're still suffering from lack of competitive desktop prices and performance.
  • Reply 7 of 11
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    Pardon my ognorance, what kind of brand is EMACHINE?? I 've never heard of it!! <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
  • Reply 8 of 11
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    [quote]Originally posted by stunned:

    <strong>Pardon my ognorance, what kind of brand is EMACHINE?? I 've never heard of it!! :confused: </strong><hr></blockquote>



    It's a Daewoo brand. They made some iMac knock-offs and got sued a few years back.



    These figures look good to me, as they probably mean the AppleStore initive is going well.



    Barto
  • Reply 9 of 11
    stagflation stevestagflation steve Posts: 294member
    comming in 5th place in a two horse race isn't an accomplishment
  • Reply 10 of 11
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    [QUOTE]Originally posted by Barto

    Quote:

    Originally posted by stunned:

    <strong>Pardon my ognorance, what kind of brand is EMACHINE?? I 've never heard of it!! :confused: </strong><hr></blockquote>



    It's a Daewoo brand. They made some iMac knock-offs and got sued a few years back.



    These figures look good to me, as they probably mean the AppleStore initive is going well.



    Barto



    Wonder Why
  • Reply 11 of 11
    artman @_@artman @_@ Posts: 2,546member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Matsu

    This is retail... RETAIL. Not institutional, not business, not direct order, RETAIL. Point of sale, in a bricks and mortar store where a consumer walks in, picks something up and walks out.



    Doesn't mean squat about Market Share.



    Get it? Considering Apple's burgeoning retail presence, 3.8% of RETAIL desktop sales isn't that bad. But they're still getting slaughtered in marketshare, it ISN'T going up, and they're still suffering from lack of competitive desktop prices and performance.



    Got it.



    But where, oh where is Gateway? At least Apple can probably weather through there brick and mortar escapade (Gateway is closing down stores left and right) and Apple's online sales are good. Gateway though is losing $400,000,000 a year, so they just laid off another 1,900 workers. Gateway has been tanking ever since they lost AMD in '01. And they'll probably be gone by the end of this year.



    Just wonder if we Apple users should consider this a small victory...or the shades of things to come. I hope the former.
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