The Baltimore Sun's David Zeiler writes that Business suddenly discovers the Mac. "Mac use in businesses rose from 1.1 percent in October 2006 to 4.5 percent in June of this year, according to a report by analyst Benjamin Gray of Forrester Research released Friday and made public by eWeek’s Joe Wilcox."
"Finally, Gray offers this reason for Mac growth among businesses: “Tech populism drives younger, more tech-savvy workers to buy whatever they need to work smarter, faster, and cheaper.”
Today’s students are tomorrow’s young workers, and ever-higher numbers of them are Apple customers. In a report released earlier this month research firm IDC said Apple had regained the lead in notebook sales from Dell with 36.5 percent of the market. Dell sunk to 27.1 percent.
“What we’ve seen over the past couple of years is a significant increase in the number of students who own an Apple laptop or Apple desktop or plan to buy one,” Eric Weil of Student Monitor, a research company focused on college students, told Investor’s Business Daily."
Suzanne Choney of MSNBC wrote that Macs continue to gain in home, business share.
"More home users, and a growing number in the small business sphere, are opting to move to Apple’s computers, their interest driven by positive experiences with Apple's other products, as well as disenchantment with the Windows world."
It's been good news for the Apple iPhone as well this week as AT&T has announce new pricing plans for travelers. Also it seems that Apple has been vindicated because recently a Swedish firm has tested the iPhone 3G antenna and found no problems! Interestingly the new BlackBerry suffering same 3G connection drops as iPhone. This would seem to be some type of software problem as both phones use different chips.
In other iPhone news it seems that some European users have also reported problems with being billed for data use even when they are on their home WIFI networks! Ouch!
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