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In the quarter the iMac shipped, Macintosh computer sales grew year-on-year for the first time since late 1995, and saw the Mac grow its worldwide market share from 3 to 5 percent. [12] Apple went from losing $878 million in 1997 to making $414 million in 1998, its first profit in three years. [ 40 ]
The global market leader has been Lenovo in every year since 2013, followed by HP and Dell. Previously, Compaq was the global market leader in the late 1990s until the year 2000, while HP and Dell shared market leadership in the 2000s. For data about PC vendors' market shares in laptop computers specifically, see Laptop#Historic market share.
"MacInTouch" began as an independent print journal in 1985, originally published by Ford-LePage Inc., [1] to provide news and information about Macintosh computers. The MacInTouch Home Page website, created by Ric Ford in 1994, [2] [3] was serving daily Mac news and information to more than a million people by 1998.
The iMac is a series of all-in-one computers from Apple Inc., sold as part of the company's Mac family of computers. First introduced in 1998, it has remained a primary part of Apple's consumer desktop offerings since and evolved through seven distinct forms.
In 1991, the Macintosh Portable was replaced with the smaller and lighter PowerBook 100, the first laptop with a palm rest and trackball in front of the keyboard. The PowerBook brought $1 billion of revenue within one year, and became a status symbol. [21] By then, the Macintosh represented 10% to 15% of the personal computer market. [22]
After being renamed the Macintosh XL in an effort to revive sales, a year later production ended following less than three years of poor sales. While Apple had a hit with the Macintosh, they still needed a way to make inroads into the professional world and the Mac was already being criticized as a toy by the business community.
1 year January 24, 1984 Macintosh 128K: Compact: September 10, 1984 7 months September 10, 1984 Macintosh 512K: Compact: April 14, 1986 1 year, 7 months Macintosh 128K (revised) Compact: October 1, 1985 1 year 1985 January 1, 1985 Macintosh XL: Compact: April 29, 1985 3 months 1986 January 16, 1986 Macintosh Plus: Compact: January 1, 1987 11 months
Windows is still the dominant desktop OS, but the dominance varies by region and it has gradually lost market share to other desktop operating systems (not just to mobile) with the slide very noticeable in the US, where macOS usage has more than quadrupled from Jan. 2009 to Dec. 2020 to 30.62% (i.e. in Christmas month; and 34.72% in April 2020 ...