AppleInsider Staff
With its iPad, Apple continued to enjoy a commanding lead over the worldwide PC market in units shipped during the second quarter of 2013, but second place Lenovo gained some ground on strong tablet shipment growth.
According to Canalys, a market research firm that considers tablets in its PC shipment estimates, Apple owned a 17.1 percent share of the PC market in quarter two with 18.6 million units shipped. However, the Cupertino, Calif., company saw negative growth of 11.5 percent from the same period in 2012, which resulted in an over two point drop in marketshare.
Canalys saw No. 2 Lenovo creep up on Apple with 14.1 million units shipped, good for 12.9 percent of the market. Units shipped was up 7.3 percent from the year ago quarter. In addition to gaining share in the notebook and desktop categories, Lenovo was able to also grow in tablets.
"It is striking how successful it has been in globalizing its PC business and breaking the 1 million unit barrier is an important milestone for its tablet shipments," said Canalys analyst James Wang. "Lenovo is on an upward curve with its tablets, expanding in mainland China and Latin America, where there is little competition from the likes of Google or Amazon."
Coming in third with a revamped tablet strategy was HP, which regained the spot from Samsung on 12.7 million shipped units for an 11.6 percent share of the market. Samsung trailed in fourth with 10.8 million units for 9.9 percent of the market, while Dell ended in fifth place with 9.5 million shipments and an 8.7 percent marketshare.
Overall, the PC market grew slightly year-over-year at a rate of 0.3 percent with just over 109 million total shipments.
Although Apple's iPad shipment growth rate may have slipped, the company is still seen as raking in the most profits from its tablet sales. The continued profitability of the iPad is crucial to Apple, especially considering Canalys estimates regarding Mac shipments, which reportedly accounted for only 20 percent of the company's PC shipments for the second quarter.
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16 Comments
Times change. Wasn't long ago that a PC was quite a different beast.
Well there are companies that sell a $900 laptop and the 128G Cellular iPad is $929, but most $900 don't do cellular. Low end laptops do start at around $350 or so for those cheap PC laptops and desktops, so why not include iPads and tablets by other companies. It runs Office apps and other professional business applications. Heck, they are used as replacing PC and dedicated cash registers, and all kinds of things normally done on a desktop or laptop. I think it's funny myself.
Windows, Android, HP, Sony, Google, Motorola ='s CRAP!
Times change. Wasn't long ago that a PC was quite a different beast.
Wasn't long ago Apple would have been down in the no-name "Other" category, and HP was flying high...
I remember back in the day when Microsoft used to sell OS software and everyone needed to buy a DOS compatible computer and then take a class on how to use it so as not to get the floppy disc stuck in the CD drive tray.
These days Apple products are all rubbing off each other shouting 'we are family' ;p which is a very attractive proposition and a strong place to be. The wierd thing is that Sony had the whole ecosystem thing....i remember going to the Sony building in Ginza in '97 and seeing concept stuff like digital picture frames...they were so far ahead.....and just lost it completely. Japan innovated technology and made it cool....not any more. I had sony sonic stage (which must have come out at around the same time as iTunes). The sony player I had was there first attempt to copy the iPod....with a touch pad and small screen .....the hard drive unit seized up on it after 6 months.....then I had to format my pc and even though I left my songs on a separate drive, sonic stage would not recognise them as my collection and not let me play them - rendering my collection useless. My relationship with iTunes and iPod was born and that has blossomed into a bigger Apple relationship.