Just in case you missed it amid the excitement at Apple’s ever-growing MacBook sales yesterday, we learn the company's Q4 sales remain strong - even in a price conscious market.
IDC tells us Apple’s US Q4 sales climbed 31 percent year-on-year to 1.5 million units - or 7 percent of that market. And, in what these days appears business as usual, Apple outgrew the rest of the market, which grew on average 24 percent year-over-year.
Apple was number four PC maker in 2009 overall, shifting 5.6 million Macs to seize 8 percent share.
"The U.S. market exploded in the fourth quarter, driven by a series of factors contributing to the unexpected 24% year-on-year growth. First is the rubber-band effect and recovery from the year-ago quarter, which suffered from buyer contraction when the economic crisis was confirmed. The vendors responded with
