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14%

14% -- retail market share for Apple Macs (US computer retail) (2008-02)

Name: Retail Market Share Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-16

2008-02 · The NPD Group

Macs accounted for a 14 percent unit share of all US computer retail sales in February 2008 according to NPD Group data.

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14%

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Percentage

Data Vintage

2008-02

Entity

Apple Macs (US computer retail)

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Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

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61/100 confidence

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Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

The NPD Group Primary Tier B

http://eyeonapple.wordpress.com/category/laptop/ ↗

Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2008-02 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Posts about Laptop on Eye On Apple by David Sieger

Original Research

The NPD Group · Original study ↗

Methodology

Based on NPD Group retail sales data as cited by Piper Jaffray analyst; represents unit share of US computer retail sales

Methodology documented

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IndustryRetail RegionUS

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Apple Macs (US computer retail): 14% retail market share. Source: The NPD Group (2008-02). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/mac-us-retail-market-share-feb-2008

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