Year: 2010

Select Apple Specialists to sell the iPad

Everyone knows that Best Buy will be selling the new iPad. However, most folks may not realize that select Apple Specialist locations in the US will also be selling the iPad on release
date.

Through a nondisclosure agreement, Apple is not allowing these resellers from doing any pre-advertising or tell customers they will be carrying the iPad products, Joe Weingarten, executive director, Macintosh Reseller Association, tells “MacNews.”

Apple Specialists are locally owned and operated Apple resellers, most have been operating long before Apple opened their own retail stores.

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Mac OS X, Safari, iPhone market share all up in March

Mac OS X, Safari and iPhone market share for Internet usage rose from February to March, according to the latest market share survey from NetMarketShare (http://www.netmarketshare.com).

According to the report, among operating systems, Mac OS X had 5.33% of the global market share in March, compared to 5.02% in February (that’s global market share; in the US it’s almost 10 %). Windows remains dominant with 91.58% as of March. That’s down from 92.12% in February. Apple’s highest percentage previously was 5.27% in October 2009, so March’s number is an all-time high.

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