Market or desktop PCs have declined markedly in recent years. The reason is a rapidly increasing sales of notebook computers, both in price and performance is now comparable to the traditional board computers.
Then it happens: Apple comes with a pretty desktop. Earlier that such machines like something that belonged in an office. With Apple's iMac models, the desktop suddenly gained acceptance in the living room. This is probably the main reason why the iMac now has around 25 percent of the market for desktop computers worldwide, according to a new overview analyst from Piper Jaffray.
And according to analyst Gene Munster is growing so rapidly that the percentage figure in a few years approaching 50 percent.
According the same source will rise in iMac sales have increased by somewhere between 26 and 31 percent from the same period last year when the first quarter made up.
Münster use the term "flying off the shelves" when he will describe the surprising trend of people buying desktop Macs as never before.
On top of this comes a strong growth in sales of portable Mac. But here is the Windows world, far stronger, and in this context, Apple is still a dwarf.
In other words, in what most thought was a dying market that Apple is likely to succeed with their computers, percentage wise. So we'll see what happens when they are at the beginning of next month launch the much-admired review board iPad.
