US Thanksgiving is this Thursday, and their friends across the big pond have something for the Apple Fanclub of bloggers and journalists to be grateful for: Canalys predictions that the Mac maker will be the No. 1 PC vendor next year — gasp, possibly during holiday 2011. “HP and Apple will fight for top position in Q4, but Apple may have to wait for the release of iPad 3 before it passes HP”, Canalys analyst Tim Coulling says.
It’s an amazing proclamation, considering that IDC put Mac global share at a puny 5.2 percent in third quarter.
That’s right as much as Apple seems to be everywhere it has on 5% of the PC market with even a smaller foot hold in the business market. So what is Tim Coulling going on about? He has decided that the iPad is a full use PC instead of an over sized phone….else where in the business world it is still very hard to get a Mac in the door.
