AppleInsider Staff
IDC
Apple shipped an estimated 1.618 million Macs in the June quarter, good for an 8.8 percent domestic market share. Apple finished in fourth place, an improvement from last quarter, when the company shipped 1.13 million units and took fifth place with a 6.4 percent market share.
Apple's second-quarter estimates from IDC also showed a 15.4 percent increase from the same three-month period in 2009. A year ago, Apple shipped 1.402 million Macs and had 8.6 percent of the U.S. market.
Apple's fourth-place finish put it ahead of Toshiba, which shipped an estimated 1.56 million PCs and garnered 8.5 percent of the market.
The top domestic PC maker was HP, which shipped an estimated 4.721 million PCs, taking 25.7 percent of the market. It grew 14.2 percent from a year prior.
Dell came in second, with 4.408 million PCs shipped, giving it a projected 24 percent market share. It, too, grew in the double-digits, increasing 10.9 percent from a year prior.
Year-over-year growth was slower for Acer, maker of low-cost netbooks. Though the company came in third place, shipping an estimated 1.618 million PCs and taking 11 percent domestic market share, it only grew 1 percent year-over-year. That was significantly less than the U.S. market average of 12.6 percent year-over-year growth.
Preliminary U.S. PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 2Q10 (Thousands of Units) | Source: IDC
In all, IDC forecast that 18.357 million PCs were shipped in the U.S., out of 81.505 million shipped globally in the three-month period. Worldwide, the top three vendors were the same, with HP followed by Dell and Acer. Taking fourth globally was Lenovo, followed by Toshiba and Asus tied for fifth. Apple did not rank among the top global vendors for the period.
"The PC market remains robust, and in a recovery phase, despite challenges to a broader economic recovery, such as slow job growth and a more conservative outlook in Europe and Asia/Pacific," said Jay Chou, research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. "The factors which led to the recent PC rebound – an aging commercial installed base, a proliferation of low-cost media-centric PCs, and low PC penetration through much of the world – remain key drivers going forward."
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What no comments? You need to include the keyword antenna in the title. Good news like this is never well received......except by stockholders.
So how did IDC due last qtr in their prediction? They predicted 1130K for 8.3% YOY growth. According to Apples actual earnings release. They sold 971K units in the Americas and 606K in retail for 1577. Lets say US makes up 90% of that 1419 vs a 1130 estimate for an error rate of about 25%. I guess I wouldn't pay for their research. Also what happened to the millions of iPads sold. Right they don't qualify because Apple is the only one selling tablets and making money at it but netbooks count.
ahh... estimates
I estimate apple would have sold lots
and I didnt even get paid for making that up
The biggest netbook maker has stagnated? Looks like the people theorizing netbooks aren't a good marriage of limited HW with a full desktop OS may be right if this estimate is even remotely accurate. Who knew?¡
So how did IDC due last qtr in their prediction? They predicted 1130K for 8.3% YOY growth. According to Apples actual earnings release. They sold 971K units in the Americas and 606K in retail for 1577. Lets say US makes up 90% of that 1419 vs a 1130 estimate for an error rate of about 25%. I guess I wouldn't pay for their research.
Reminds me of Gartner's scam in the 90's.
Every quarter, they'd publish estimated results stating that sales of software for Macs had declined in the previous quarter. Since this was in the "Apple is dying" days, these reports got lots of press.
Then, sometime during the next few months, more accurate figures came out and it turned out that Apple's sales had actually RISEN, not fallen. To my knowledge, Gartner NEVER published those results, nor did they ever retract their erroneous report.
Then, the next report would again use estimated results in state that software sales for Macs had fallen again in the previous quarter. They would, of course, use the higher figures for the previous period in order to support their contention, but never stated that their history of estimating was wrong every single time.
They kept this up for over 3 years - being wrong in the same direction EVERY SINGLE TIME for that period - and the rest of the media let them get away with it.
Until you've got actual results from the companies involved as part of their 8K reports, analyst guesses can almost always be ignored.