The Baltimore Sun is reporting today that Apple sales will stay strong regardless of a declining and troubled economy. I wonder if a bonus check from the government has anything to do with this. Changewave Research conducted a survey of consumers and corporations that plan on buying a computer in the next 90 days. According to the article, Changewave Research conducts these surveys with its own group of people: the same 15,000 for each survey to allow for historical comparisons.

Apple is staying mostly steady, not going up; but that is much better than HP and Dell who are declining in both the consumer and corporate markets.

In the OS arena, 53% of those corporate respondents that use Leopard said they were “very satisified.” Anybody want to guess how many corporate Vista users were “very satisfied?” Eight percent.
As I mentioned Changewave uses the same 15,000 members for all the surveys. In November, 29% of respondents said that they planned on buying a Mac in the next 90 days. But the February survey of those same people said that only 16% did purchase a Mac. This was not evident in PC sales, where there was only a one percent difference between those who said they would, and those who actually did, buy a PC. I think that there is the discrepancy because Macs cost so much, and people actually have to save up for one. You can buy a cheap PC that is obviously not as good as a Mac, but it is still a computer. And when you’ve only got a few hundred bucks, a new PC could be tempting to those without a discerning palette.
Any other thoughts on why Apple is losing those that plan to buy a Mac?
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