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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by mcintyre1994 on Saturday May 03, 2014 @04:15PM (#7692214)
Are Apple only the biggest if we include iPhones and/or iPads? I don't think anybody puts an HDD into a smartphone/tablet (it's surely all flash?) so it seems we'd have to limit the definition of computer to laptop/desktop to get anything interesting. Otherwise machines with an HDD are a minority already like you said.
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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by nardi on Saturday May 03, 2014 @10:13PM (#7693078)
Apple is the largest laptop/desktop manufacturer.
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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by mcintyre1994 on Saturday May 03, 2014 @10:28PM (#7693102)
Do you have a source at all for that? I've found multiple articles saying Lenovo overtook HP for that title around July 2013 but nothing naming Apple. According to [0] Apple weren't in the top six at that point.

I did find articles from early 2012 calling Apple the biggest but that was of course based on iPads almost entirely. For example [1] has some figures from then, 5.2 million macs to over 10 million units each from HP, Lenovo and Dell.

[0] http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23637017/hewlett-packard-loses...

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/24/apple_now_largest_...

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by mikhailt on Saturday May 03, 2014 @10:48PM (#7693130)
No, they're not. They're the most profitable, not the same as the biggest.

HP/Lenovo have the top two spots, they're selling tens of millions per quarter. Apple barely breaks 5 million.

Apple doesn't have great business nor governmental support, which eliminates them from being considered at thousands of companies.

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by nardi on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:54AM (#7693567)
You're right. I was thinking of profit. Sorry for posting misinformation.
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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by rplnt on Sunday May 04, 2014 @05:54AM (#7693794)
Is that laptop market? Or combined? I wonder where Dell fits in.
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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by mikhailt on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @01:04AM (#7702926)
In terms of the combined consumers sales, Dell is probably #3.

The revenue Dell pulled from their consumer division (which includes desktop/laptops/thin-clients/mobile devices and so on) is $8.9 billion.

> End User Computing revenue was $8.9 billion in the quarter, a 9 percent decrease. Operating income for the quarter was $224 million, a 65 percent decrease. Dell desktop and thin-client revenue declined 2 percent, mobility revenue declined 16 percent, and software from third parties and peripherals revenue declined 6 percent.

Source: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130516006383/en/Dell...

In Apple's '14 Q1 report, their Mac revenue was $6.4 billion. iPad: $11.4B and iPhone $32B for the total of ~$50B.

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