APPLE CONTROLS MORE THAN 90 PER CENT OF EXPENSIVE COMPUTER MARKET

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
28.07.2009 17:18 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to NPD Group, Apple controlled 91 per
cent of expensive computers’ market in June 2009. NPD regarded as
expensive computers costing more than $1000.

As Ernest Mardoyan, Director of Apple in Armenia, told a
PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, over the first quarter of this year the
popularity of Apple products decreased by 30 per cent in Armenia. But
over the past two months it started to grow, and the increase in
sales reached 10 per cent compared since the beginning of the year.

Over the second quarter of 2009 the market share of Apple, according
to Gartner, was very low – only 8.7 per cent.

The average price of computers in retail sales is $ 701, including
Windows-based – $515, the Macintosh-based – $1400.