Australians switching to Macs faster than most any other country
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 20, 2008 at 6:59pm
Australians are switching to Macs at a faster rate than almost anywhere else in the world, reports the Courier Mail. The Gartner research firm’s latest figures show Mac sales grew 52 percent in the second quarter in Australia, nearly six times the rate of the personal computer industry overall.
This is even better than in the US, where Mac sales have been growing at about three times the industry average. Apple’s share of the Australian computer market in the second quarter of 2008 was 5.3 percent, according to Gartner, up from 3.8 percent a year ago. Rival research firm IDC puts the present figure as high as 6.2 percent.
If Mac sales continue to grow at this rate, the platform will have a double-figure market share within a few years, notes the Courier Mail. Worldwide, the Mac market share is about 3.5 percent, but this is double the 1.8 percent it hit about five years ago. With continuing gains in the West, and an emerging middle class in markets such as China and India, the potential is huge, the article adds.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
