Apple continues to show tremendous growth in the enterprise and government markets, as Mac sales spiked sharply over the last three months.
AppleInsider cites a report from Charlie Wolf of Needham & Company this week that Apple saw a 200.8% year-over-year growth in government sales for the month of July. That’s a huge number, and significantly higher than the 12.1% of growth that PC sales showed over the same period.
Likewise, sales grew 49.8% in the business market during the same time period. Large companies out-purchased small businesses, picking up 98.3 more Macs than they did in the previous year.
Wolf hesitates to call the figures a pattern, saying “Whether the June blip was a one-quarter phenomenon or something more enduring should be revealed in future quarters.”
As for education, traditionally a stronghold for Apple, sales grew 14.7% during the same period. Recent reports show that college and university students in the US are buying MacBooks in huge numbers.
TUAWGovernment, enterprise Mac sales surge originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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