

Apple now owns 10.6 percent of the U.S. PC market



Acer and Toshiba took fourth place and fifth place respectively.






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Perhaps the most profitable PC maker?
By jmunjr on 10/13/2010 7:50:13 PM , Rating: 2
Due to the high cost of the of PCs I bet they are the most profitable PC maker.

RE: Perhaps the most profitable PC maker?
By xaders on 10/13/2010 8:15:57 PM , Rating: 5
If Apple so rich & profitable why aint they helping the poor/helpless around the world like Bill Gates. Even Facebook Founder & CEO donate money to help out even if we dont know how much he is worth. Steve Jobs is laughing all the way to the bank and Apple is are not the center of the universe!!

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By MeesterNid on 10/13/10, Rating: -1
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RE: Perhaps the most profitable PC maker?
By Spivonious on 10/14/10, Rating: 0
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My usual response is I gave at the IRS

RE: Perhaps the most profitable PC maker?
By Taft12 on 10/14/2010 11:37:12 AM , Rating: 2
This article is about PC hardware sales, which is not MS' business.

By slashbinslashbash on 10/14/2010 6:52:18 PM , Rating: 2
Ok, first off. Steve Jobs owns less than 1% of AAPL stock (0.7% was the latest number I could find). This comes to about $2 billion today, but a year ago, it was under a billion. In 2003 it would have been worth only $32 million. Remember, Steve Jobs left Apple for a number of years and then came back -- and AAPL shares fell very far during the time that he was gone. I don't know how many shares he might have had at one point, but he's had less than 1% since he's come back as CEO. In contrast, Bill Gates has been with Microsoft for the whole ride and has kept his ownership very high. Bill Gates owns roughly 7% of MSFT, and that is after giving a lot of it away. That comes to about $15 billion.

BillG started the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, which also happened to be the year that he resigned as CEO -- which also happened to be the year that MSFT shares peaked at almost $60/share (now at $25/share, been trading in the $20-$30 range for a while).

AAPL stock is rising like crazy. It's just insane. Apple will probably be the biggest company in the world, based on market value, pretty soon. Just plain nuts! (And this is coming from from a guy who loves his Macs and who also owns shares of AAPL). Unless you think a charity could achieve a similar return on investment, you come to realize that it’s actually better for Steve Jobs to keep his money for now and give it away later as long as he’s creating such huge returns on his personal wealth. IMO, this is why folks such as Gates and Warren Buffett waited until close to the end of their careers to donate to charity. Mark Zuckerberg gave away a bunch of money as a pure PR move -- doing it right as the movie was coming out was no coincidence. (It was really a pretty dumb way to spend it too, IMHO. He should have given it to the Gates Foundation, it would have done more good there.)

"Steve Jobs is laughing all the way to the bank" -- LOL. Seriously? Do you really think he has any way to spend all the money he has? Once you strike it really rich (say, $10M+ net worth, more or less) you simply start having trouble spending all that money. That is why the rich make donations. They build buildings on university campuses (e.g. T. Boone Pickens, Ross Perot), create universities outright (e.g. John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Leland Stanford), create foundations for medical research (e.g. Howard Hughes, Bill Gates), create public libraries (Andrew Carnegie)... the list goes on and on. The above list comprises some guys who were the greediest mofos around in their day, but their money still lives on and creates undeniable good in the world (the Howard Hughes Medical Institute spends roughly half a billion dollars per year to fund research at universities -- watch "The Aviator" again and think about that as you watch it -- yes, he lived a lavish lifestyle, but even so, he couldn't possibly blow that much money, and his money outlived him).

Steve Jobs is too busy right now creating wealth to spend time sitting around and figuring out how to give it away. There is a reason why BillG take the Foundation very seriously and treats running it as a full-time job. It is one!

By msheredy on 10/15/2010 11:06:52 AM , Rating: 2
Bill Gates is a philanthropist—Steve Jobs isn't. That's why.

