[ryanx435]

there have been about a dozen new hires at my work, each of them getting a new mac book and accessories to develop on.

multiply that by all of the new hires across the country and some of the lowest unemployment numbers in years and you've got a good set up for apple's hardware division to make a ton of sales last quarter.

...

but unfortunately, looking at their data, it looks like I was wrong: unit sales for macs fell by 13% compared to last year, and 9% compared to last quarter.

interesting.

Edit: downvotes because I made a prediction before looking at the reports then acknowledged I was wrong and didn't delete my post. Cool.

[zhonwang]

Might surprise you but the vast majority of IT units hiring people are not giving them $1500-$2000 Macbooks

[lev99]

You only spend $2000 on your mac books? My last one was $3,750 after shipping and taxes.

[yalph]

Wow!! Can you say it is absolutely worth it?

[lev99]

It's extortion. MacOS is the only good consumer OS built on *nix, so I'd probably pay 3x if they charged it.

[yalph]

Haha fair enough. I too like the OS but that pricing point is way too steep for me.

[scarface74]

My Dell laptop that I got when I was hired cost $1500

[electricslpnsld]

Windows is still something like 88% of the corporate computer market, with macOS at around 9%, last I checked. Most companies aren't purchasing Apple hardware for their employees.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Windows is still something like 88% of the corporate computer market

Apple's genius is in measuring market share by bottom line, not top.

[baal80spam]

Yeah, certainly they don't do it in Europe. I wonder how does it look in the US, I would imagine Macs are much more popular in corporations (?) and definitely startups.

[nicoburns]

I don't know about the rest of europe, but macs are standard (if not universal) at web agencies in the UK (often purchased by the company).

I'm sure it's very different at large corporations.

[Spooky23]

You work in an unusual place.

Most of our new hires are getting ancient PCs to use as VDI thin clients.

[alaskamiller]

Your extrapolation process is off.

MacBooks as work computers being handed out is an aberration. Has been since the 80's, 90's, and 00's.

[willio58]

I commend you for not deleting. Stay strong!