New and Noteworthy: Mac Global Market Share Up 20%; Ballmer: iPhone will flop; more

Mac Global Market Share Up 20% Business 2.0 reports on data from IDC indicating that Mac market share is up 20% year-over-year. "PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster, who had expected the Mac to lose market share in Q1 of calendar 2007 (which Apple refers to as Q2), was pleasantly surprised that it had inched up a bit from the Christmas quarter, from 2.5% to 2.6%. And he believes it's uphill from here for the rest of the year." More.

Ballmer: iPhone will flop Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer tells USA Today that "there's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance." Ballmer continues "It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get." More.

ZDNet: iWeb update sorely needed ZDNet opines that Apple's iWeb is in need of a major overhaul. "The one program that is sorely lacking is Apple's wimpy iWeb. The basic Web page builder is part of Apple's  iLife '04 suite (US$79) and it's just good enough to help you build a few slick Web sites, but that's about it. iWeb has some decent templates, but once you've used them up there are no more. What's worse is that you can't touch any HTML in iWeb, it's all GUI-based, so if you need to hack in a button or tweak something - forget about it. If you maintain several sites in iWeb and update one page, you need to export all pages from all sites to a folder. Then it reminds you that it was really designed to work with Apple's (US$99/year) dot-Mac service. The list goes on and on." More.

Previously on MacFixIt:

• mac.column.ted: Leopard's delay is no big deal; or is it?
• Apple Battery Update 1.2 (#2): Severe problems after updating may indicate a bad battery; fans run constantly
• Checking for Bad RAM; problems can be indirect

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