Re: Apple Overtakes IBM?

[musjndx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jonathan N. Deitch)]

herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung) writes:

>I found this on the ProTERM BBS last night and thought it was kinda
>neat:
> 
> Subject: Apple Overtakes IBM
>    From: JERRY CLINE [#1]
>  Posted: 10/26/92 at 11:14:19
>  Thread: /CLINE
> 

This was in MacWeek a couple of weeks ago ...
 
> 
>Apple to outsell IBM, analyst says The Associated Press
> 
>BOSTON
> 
>Apple Computer Inc. will overtake International Business Machines in
>sales of personal computers this year, an analyst has estimated.
> 
>Kimball Brown, director of PC hardware research for International
>Data Corp., a market-research firm headquartered in Framingham,
>Mass., based his estimate on the number of units shipped by each
>company during the past several years.
> 
>In 1990, IBM had 12 .9 percent of the total units shipped worldwide
>compared with Apple's 7.2 percent, Brown said.
> 
>By 1991, the margin had narrowed, with IBM shipping 11.3 percent of
>units to Apple's 9.7 percent. That translated to 2.9 million units
>for IBM and 2.5 million for Apple.
> 
>However, in the first nine months of this year, Apple shipped 2.04
>million units, compared with IBM's 1.85 million, Brown said.
> 
>"The year isn't over yet," Brown said. "The question is: Can IBM come
>back?"
> 
>"But even if they did, I think Apple would still come out on top."
> 
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