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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by merdadicapra on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:52AM (#26956699)
1 - Apple is not going to enter the server market ever again, especially not the generalist cloud infrastructure

2 - 90% of the laptops sold Worldwide aren't Apple laptops, most of them are sub $500 laptops. Amazon best selling is ASUS Laptop L210 Ultra Thin Laptop, 11.6” HD Display, Intel Celeron N4020 Processor, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage priced at $199

Basically only Mac users who upgraded to M1 are going to notice the difference

Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by ogre_codes on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:01PM (#26958579)
> 90% of the laptops sold Worldwide aren't Apple laptops, most of them are sub $500 laptops.

Apple’s share of the total PC shipments is closer to 15% now and their share of the laptop market is even higher.

Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by dgellow on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:11PM (#26960131)
... in the US. It's a different story worldwide where Apple is around 8% (source: https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/11/mac-huge-q4-growth-49-percent...).
Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by neogodless on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:24PM (#26962646)
I tried a variety of Google searches, but I can't find information specifically narrowed down to Apple's share of the notebook/laptop market in the U.S. Can you help me?
Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by jhayward on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:47PM (#26961290)
> 2 - 90% of the laptops sold Worldwide aren't Apple laptops,

This is perhaps the wrong metric to look at. What % of total profit is Apple capturing? Several years ago the accepted wisdom in phones was that Apple was getting ~30% of the unit volume and 90% of the profit.

Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by merdadicapra on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:00AM (#26967265)
> What % of total profit is Apple capturing?

Worldwide 9.6%.

I rounded it at 10%.

> Apple achieved a global desktop/laptop market share of 9.6% and ranked fourth behind Lenovo, HP, and Dell. In the United States, Apple accounts for 12.7% of the PC market