International Data Corporation

2011 will be the year Android explodes

Ever-improving networks and a big hardware announcement that will send handset prices plummeting both point to smartphone growth in 2011 that could totally eclipse anything we've seen before.

Smartphones have been growing at an unbelievable clip over the past year but they still account for only around a third of all phones in the US and an even smaller percentage internationally.  In developing countries, the price of smartphones, aside from some MORE

Mac shipments outpace market 3 to 1

In sales to business, the Mac's year-to-year growth last quarter was nearly eight times faster

Needham's Charlie Wolf found lots of good news for Apple (AAPL) in IDC's report on the state of the worldwide PC market for Q3 2010.

That's because his report to clients issued Tuesday never mentioned that the Mac's share of that market last quarter was only 4.36%.

Instead Wolf focused exclusively on the Mac's rate of growth.

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