{"id":661,"date":"2025-03-19T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:41:48","slug":"us-mac-growth-suggests-microsoft-may-have-done-apple-a-huge-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/us-mac-growth-suggests-microsoft-may-have-done-apple-a-huge-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"US Mac growth suggests Microsoft may have done Apple a huge favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/US-Mac-growth-suggests-Microsoft-may-have-done-Apple-a-huge-favor-.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>Growth in US <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> shipments hit more than 25% in the final quarter of last year, outperforming that of all PC makers. Only Acer came close with 20% growth, while market leaders HP and Dell both saw their shipments decline year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>A market intelligence company has suggested a key factor may be <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/microsoft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft<\/a> forcing businesses to replace millions of existing PCs \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,microsoft\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"994582\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/03\/19\/us-mac-growth-suggests-microsoft-may-have-done-apple-a-huge-favor\/#more-994582\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growth in US Mac shipments hit more than 25% in the final quarter of last year, outperforming that of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}