I live in Ann Arbor, MI, and 90% of the laptop users (in coffee shops or other public locations) use an Apple. So, from what I can see, they don't appear to be declining.
In Athens, GA (home of UGA) it is the predominant laptop in all of the coffee shops as well. Sometimes I bother counting and it is about 90% Apple laptops or iPads.
Thats interesting. I've always thought that Apple was mainly dominant in Silicon Valley, and MAYBE other tech hubs but thats pretty interesting.
SV is well ahead of the bell curve on technology domination. While conference rooms full of MacBooks may be passe' or declining in the valley, the ubiquity of Apple gear in conference rooms east of the Rockies is still a very new thing.
If it's old and tired in Oakland, its still new and shiny in Oakbrook. :-)
They're mainly dominant in coffee shops---their overall laptop share is less than 10%.
I assure you in the Valley its not just in coffee shops. I've lived here for 5+ years and the mass majority of folks I come across are Mac users. While its true Mac shares are probably still single digits, in this region, they are dominating.
I don't doubt it. I just thought it was funny that coffee shops were mentioned specifically in multiple posts. Probably not a good random sample.
That's more than any other laptop brand. Plus, Apple just has 5-6 models, whereas the other brands dilute their offerings with 20-30 models each.
Very true. But the 'coffee shop metric' makes it sound like they dominate laptops the same way they dominate tablets (where the iPad is something like 60% of the market), and that's not the case.