Apple Beats the Calendar and the Street - New York Times

Apple Beats the Calendar and the Street - New York Times: "Mr. Jobs said the company sold 14 million iPods during the holiday quarter, up from 4.5 million during the 2004 holiday season. Perhaps more surprising was the news that Apple sold 1.25 million Macintosh computers in the quarter, up from 1.05 million in 2004, despite the worries of some analysts that consumers would delay their purchases. Sales at Apple's retail stores rose to about $1 billion, Mr. Jobs said.
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In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Jobs said Apple increased its share of the computer market in 2005 to roughly 4 percent, from 3 percent. 'All we have to do is get 4 or 5 percent of Windows users to switch, and we'll be in great shape," Mr. Jobs said.'
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Mr. Jobs said he fully expected some users to run Windows on the new Macs eventually, which could make Apple's computers an attractive alternative to PC's that run only Windows. 'I'm not going to do anything to preclude that,' he said."

Okay, it looks like history is not going to repeat, at least not immediately...