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May 22, 2008

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AirPort taking off in WiFi market share

Posted May. 22, ’08, 2:59 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Business

airportBow1.jpgWow: Not only is Apple dominating (or growing in) a bunch of tech markets, it seems to be dominating the market share market too (if that makes any sense). The Mac’s share is rising, the iPhone’s share is rising, the iPod’s share is already King—and now Apple’s AirPort products are making some dramatic inroads to the WiFi market.

An analyst for market share maven NPD Group told AppleInsider that Apple’s AirPort gizmos took 10.6% of the WiFi market in unit volume, and that the AirPort Extreme “has been the top seeling 802.11n router for five of the last nine months.” AppleInsider also points to a story at the Mothership from earlier this month with more data from NPD that says Time Capsule is the top-selling Network Attached Stored (NAS) product—and it’s augmenting AirPort sales, not cannibalizing them.

Combined with sales of the compact AirPort Express, which was upgraded to support the faster 802.11n standard in March, Apple took fourth place in overall 802.11n base station sales, behind Cisco’s Linksys brand, D-Link, and Netgear.

This is all well and good, sure. But does anyone else get the feeling that Apple is turning into the goody-goody over-achieving better-than-everyone-else perfectionist of the tech industry? Like that smart-ass kid all the “average” students always wanted beat up in middle school because he was such a little prissy brat constantly sucking up to the teachers making everyone else look bad with his stupid grades who cried like a baby when someone hit him which got me suspended even though he totally deserved it.

Apple’s doing so well in almost all of its markets. Yay. Good for it. Someone give it a cookie.

I’m going to the store to buy a Linksys.

(Note: Before the Language Nazis rip me a new one in the comments, let me say it: Yes, I know the headline is a mixed metaphor. But it’s the best I could do, okay? Cut me some slack.)


4 Comments

Steve's Job said:

I don't think the iPhone is doing "so well" in Europe. But "so well" is relative to how high you set the bar I guess.

May 22, 2008 9:29 PM
Khürt Williams Author Profile Page said:

Going to the store to buy a Linksys was something I did every two years until recently. Every two years was about how long the Linksys product would work before starting to flake out on me. This year I decided to try a different brand. Since I was in the market for some extra storage to use with Time Machine, I decided to get Time Capsule. Then I got an AirPort Express on eBay and tried AirTunes and WDS. I don't expect Linksys will be getting any of my money in the foreseeable future.

May 23, 2008 3:57 AM
Khürt Williams Author Profile Page said:

Going to the store to buy a Linksys was something I did every two years until recently. Every two years was about how long the Linksys product would work before starting to flake out on me. This year I decided to try a different brand. Since I was in the market for some extra storage to use with Time Machine, I decided to get Time Capsule. Then I got an AirPort Express on eBay and tried AirTunes and WDS. I don't expect Linksys will be getting any of my money in the foreseeable future.

May 23, 2008 3:59 AM
Ken Papp Author Profile Page said:

Hey Dan, your headline is a mixed metaphor.

May 23, 2008 2:52 PM

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