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King of the Hill (12/21/98)
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Hey, how about that? Apple finally snagged a number one slot from PC Data's monthly retail sales statistics. According to a MacCentral article, the iMac was the number one selling personal computer in November, both in retail stores and via mail order houses. Thus ends the arithmetic progression established by the iMac's first three months on the charts: fourth in August, third in September, second in October, and Numero Uno in the merry month of November. (What's on deck for December? Zero-th place?)
Apparently, for every fourteen computers sold in November, one of them was an iMac. It may not sound too impressive when expressed that way, but apparently the iMac's 7.1% of the market was the best there was. But wait-- that's not all. In addition to claiming the number one slot in the November stats, PC Data claims that the iMac was also the best selling computer on the market since it first hit the shelves in August, and the only system to make the top-five list for each of the last four months. So apparently the good news just keeps on coming.
Sounds like Apple's well on track to sell something like half a million iMacs before the end of the year. You can bet that iMac sales fun facts will figure heavily during Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote in a couple of weeks-- and it wouldn't be a bad lead-in to the introduction of Yosemite. "Numbers don't lie: the iMac revolutionized the way people think about consumer computers. And now we're about to make you all think differently about what a professional system should be like." We can hardly wait.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/21/98 episode: December 21, 1998: Well, lookee here: the iMac finally takes its rightful place at the Top of the Heap. Meanwhile, resellers are tripping all over themselves trying to deal with Best Buy's premature devaluation, and while the new Yosemite systems prepare to steal the show, the Moby and Chablis displays get ready to tag along for the ride...
Other scenes from that episode: 1230: Feeding Frenzy (12/21/98) Okay, so the iMac was the number one selling computer in November. What's going to happen in December? Well, we figure that things are only going to get better. After all, December's when the serious holiday sales would presumably kick in, and the $30-a-month consumer loan program is still in full swing, so that's got to help, too... 1231: Snowball Effect (12/21/98) So things in the consumer Macintosh world are definitely hopping, but let's talk about what's happening on the professional side of Apple's product line for a minute. You all know about Yosemite, the new professional G3 Power Macs due to be released in two weeks' time; to recap, these are screaming fast machines with real, honest-to-goodness professional-level subsystems-- not just mid-range "prosumer" computers that happened to be fast enough for Apple to reposition them as pro systems while they worked on the real professional Macs...
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