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Apple's U.S. Mac Shipments Grow In Q4 While PC Market Shrinks (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... The PC industry had a terrible fourth quarter: Worldwide shipments grew just 1.1% year-over-year, the worst Q4 growth rate since 2002, research firm Gartner said today. The U.S. was even worse: Q4 shipments dropped 10.1%. ...

People Afraid of Losing Their Jobs Buy Fewer PCs
Digital Daily — According to market-research outfits Gartner and IDC, PC shipment growth in the fourth quarter of 2008 was the worst since 2002. IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker shows global PC shipments down 0.4 percent year over year. So much for that annual holiday season uptick. As expected, demand for PCs in the U.S. faced a challenging environment, with a substantial reduction in spending among both consumer and commercial segments amid tightening credit, eroding confidence, and growing unemployment. Not only unit growth was constrained, “but the value of the market also shrank as a result of competitive ...

Woz on Jobs
MacBytes.com — Is there a silver lining in Steve Jobs’ leave of absence for Apple investors? His co-founder Steve Wozniak sees one. I just left the set of a new tech show produced by our local NBC affiliate, and as coincidence would have it, “Woz” and I were both guests. Wozniak said that when most creative types take a time out, they tend to have a flood of ideas. After all, it was after Jobs’ last leave from the company that we got the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and an entirely new Apple. Wozniak was clear to say he hadn’t talked to Jobs recently, and expressed some frustration at the amount of ink and airtime that had gone into discussing ...

Apple's U.S. PC Market Share Flat, Dell's Sinks
Silicon Alley Insider — ... to market research giant Gartner. (A year ago, it grew 12% year-over-year over Q1 '07.) The U.S. market fared better, with roughly flat shipments in Q1. Apple's Mac business leveled out after strong growth last year. U.S. Mac shipments were down 1% year-over-year, representing 7.4% of the market, according to Gartner. But that's a significant deceleration after the company grew U.S. shipments about 33% year-over-year during Q1 '08. (And grew U.S. shipments 8% year-over-year in Q4 '08, according to Gartner.) Meanwhile, Dell (DELL) sunk, as its shipments ...