{"id":1011,"date":"2025-03-19T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:19:54","slug":"us-mac-growth-suggests-microsoft-may-have-done-apple-a-huge-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.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 PC makers. Only Acer came <a href=\"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/us-mac-growth-suggests-microsoft-may-have-done-apple-a-huge-favor\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}