DigiTimes shows an investigation by the Taiwanese firm Topology Research in which it is stated that Apple will see its sales volume increase by 30 percent in 2008.
This appears to translate into a one percentage point increase in Mac market share in 2008, according to the report, which predicts that a total of 116 million laptops will be sold over the next year (of all notebooks). manufacturers), over the 93 million units sold throughout 2007.
The information indicates that the shortage of components may have been a determining factor in laptop sales during 2007, which would have been higher if the availability of these components had occurred more quickly.
The good news doesn’t stop there: A report from NPD indicates that Apple’s iPhone accounts for a quarter of the U.S. smartphone market since its introduction last July.
The firm reports that of the 4.2 million smartphones sold in the United States between July and September, 1.12 million have been iPhones. According to this data, Apple has a 27 percent market share, and represents practically the total number of smartphones sold during the same quarter of 2006.
