Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL stock news items for Monday: Apple 2012s
Biggest PC Vendor Thanks to iPad: On Friday, word came out that Apple s (NASDAQ:
AAPL ) Mac computers had taken a momentous 5% of the global desktop and laptop
PC market . After years of trailing Windows PC makers like Hewlett-Packard
(NYSE: HPQ ) by so wide a margin as to be inconsequential, Apple finally is a PC
player. If factoring in the companys tablet PC business, however, Apple is soon
to be the leading player in the industry. Research firm Canalys issued a note on
Monday that Apple will become the worlds top PC maker in 2012 based on
projections of both Mac computers and iPad tablets, surpassing HP, Dell (NASDAQ:
DELL ) and others in the process. According to a report at Apple Insider on
Canalys findings, the iPad 3 will tip the scales in Apples favor . The iPad 3 is
expected to release in March. Global PC shipments are expected to total 415
million machines by the end of 2011, a 15% increase over 2010, but that growth
is thanks almost entirely to the booming tablet market. Google Android Market
Earns 7% of Apple App Store Revenue: Speaking with Apple Insider , Piper Jaffray
analyst Gene Munster said Monday that approximately 90% of the dollars spent on
mobile apps are spent in Apples App Store. He believes that, based on his data
and data from Android app finder tool Androlib, the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG )
Android Market has generated only about $330 million in revenue since opening.
Of the 6.75 billion apps downloaded to Android phones, just 90 million (or about
1%) were paid apps. Meanwhile, 13.5% of the total 18.5 billion apps downloaded
from Apples App Store have been paid apps. Grand Central Station Apple Store
Opens for Black Friday: A Sunday report at 9 to 5 Mac said Apples new
destination retail store in New York Citys Grand Central Station will open in
time for one of the biggest travel and biggest shopping days of the year. Apple
is expected to officially announce the opening Tuesday . More than 1 million
people pass through the train station each day during the holiday season. As of
this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not hold a position in any of the
aforementioned stocks. Follow him on Twitter at
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