Apple To Ship 2.5 Million Macs Thanks to Vista?

With all the current hype surrounding the imminent release of both the upgrade to Apple’s .Mac service, now to be forever known as MobileMe, and Friday’s launch of the new, improved iPhone version 2.0, let’s not forget that Apple plus makes other types of hardware that seems to be selling pretty well these days. In fact, according to a recent commentary up by at AppleInsider, Apple is apparently poised to ship 2.5 Million Macs in the Spring — thanks, in some measure, to the poor reception of Microsoft’s Windows Vista.

According to BMO Capital Markets analyst Keith Bachman, Apple’s potentially strong quarter, which ends in June, can be attributed to several factors. Among them, user dissatisfaction with Vista. “Thus far, user satisfaction ratings for Vista have been weak, and startup times for Vista have been known to be much slower

than the Mac OS X,” Bachman said in the write-up. “Thus, more than 50% of recent customers buying Macs in Apple retail stores are first-time buyers.”

In addition, the analyst added that that problem could help Apple’s bottom line well into 2009 and could potentially improve the company’s current world market share, raising it to 3.9% or higher. that is good news for those of us who remember the moment, not so expanded ago, when most in the press and analysts like Bachman predicted Apple’s assured demise. Still, even with that good news, we still need to hope Apple doesn’t do something to hurt itself — like bungle the .Mac to MobileMe transition or run out of shiny new iPhones at 8:30AM on Friday. That would not be a good thing.

[Source] Chris Ullrich