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Apple Opportunity #1- An OS Inflection Point?

Posted by Gary on August 15, 2008

OSX market share approaches 8% in July 2008.  Up 2% from a year earlier.

Apple is expected to sell over 4 million 3G iPhones by the end of the September quarter.  Roughly 4x the totals from a similar post-launch period for the first iPhone.

The iPhone App Store saw over 60 million downloads in its first month of existence.

These numbers are all very impressive but the naysayer will hold true and naysay. The numbers are still vary small in the grand scheme of things.  Yes, OSX market share is approaching 8% but don’t forget that Windows is still at 90%.  Yes, Apple sold 4 million iPhones, but the number in insignificant when taken against the 1.15 billion mobile phones sold in 2007.

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