Apple Mac shipments slide 13% in Q3 amid PC market slowdown

Apple's share of the worldwide PC market continued a steady decline in the third calendar quarter of 2016, with estimates from market research firms IDC and Gartner both seeing shipments down least 13 percent from last year.

Mikey Campbell 9 years ago 70

Apple's Mac sheds marketshare in Q2, sinks to 5th place amid worldwide sales slowdown

Apple's share of the global PC market took a substantial hit during a challenging second quarter, dropping the company down to fifth place among the world's top computer manufacturers, according to preliminary numbers from market research firms Gartner and IDC.

AppleInsider Staff 9 years ago 71

Apple bucks downward PC market spiral, was lone manufacturer to see growth in 2015

The latest statistics from market research firm Gartner show Apple as the lone top-five PC vendor that grew worldwide shipments from 2014, bucking an negative market trend that saw shipments decline for the fourth consecutive year.

Mikey Campbell 10 years ago 18

Mac sales up 16.1% in June quarter as overall PC market continues slump

Continuing to buck trends, Mac sales rose 16.1 percent year-over-year in the June quarter even as the PC industry as a whole shrank 11.8 percent, according to new estimates published on Thursday by research firm IDC.

Roger Fingas 10 years ago 46

iPhone sales surge in Q1 on strong China, emerging market performance

Echoing findings from IDC earlier this month, market research firm Gartner this week estimated global iPhone sales hit 60.2 million units for the first quarter of 2015, in large part thanks to a surge in China.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 11

Google's Chromebooks continue to make inroads in education, Gartner says

After a slow start, the market for laptops running Google's Chrome OS — known as Chromebooks — has begun to pick up steam, new data indicates, with education customers representing a sizable majority of orders.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 62

Apple's Mac bucks negative PC market trend, gains 9% in US

According to the latest estimates from Gartner, Apple's Mac made gains in the PC market over the first quarter of 2015, bucking a wider negative trend that saw overall shipments drop 5.2 percent worldwide.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 15

Smartphone users becoming more discerning about the apps they use, Gartner says

Six years into the current incarnation of the mobile app marketplace, a recent survey suggests that while smartphone owners have not lost their appetite for new apps, developers hoping to make it into users' everyday rotation have a higher bar to reach.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 6

Smartphone shipments topped 1.2 billion in 2014, Samsung's share plummeted in face of Apple gains

Squeezed at the high-end of the market by Apple, and also at the low-end by cheaper Chinese alternatives, Samsung saw its share of the total smartphone market shrink in 2014, even as overall smartphone shipments grew to new heights.

Neil Hughes 11 years ago 29

Worldwide PC market staggers in Q4 as Apple's Mac reaches new heights

According to its quarterly PC report for the fourth quarter of 2014, research firm IDC found Apple sold some 5.8 million Macs over the three-month period, bucking an overall negative trend for the market.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 24

Apple poised to overtake Nokia in mobile phone sales after 26% iPhone surge in Q3

Handset heavyweight Nokia could cede its position as the second-largest mobile phone vendor in the world to Apple as soon as the fourth quarter of this year, as an iPhone 6-powered sales spike has pushed the Cupertino company to near-parity with the Finnish giant, according to the latest research from Gartner.

Sam Oliver 11 years ago 42

IDC miscounts Macs again, awards Apple fifth place in global PC sales one year too late

IDC doesn't like counting iPads among its global PC figures, but it doesn't seem to like counting Macs either, given its back-to-back quarterly undercounting of Apple's computer sales.

Daniel Eran Dilger 11 years ago 44

Surging Mac sales put Apple among top five global PC vendors for first time, IDC says

The Macintosh may have posted its strongest worldwide market share yet last quarter, according to the latest estimates from IDC, which place Apple among the top five global PC vendors for the first time.

Neil Hughes 11 years ago 41

Apple, Inc's double digit U.S. Mac growth contradicts IDC & Gartner reports of a Mac sales slump

Apple reported "strong double digit growth" in its Mac sales in the U.S., directly contradicting the earlier estimates published by IDC and Gartner that stated Apple's U.S. Mac sales fell year-over-year in the June quarter and calling into question the legitimacy of market estimates that the tech media uncritically presents as factual.

Daniel Eran Dilger 11 years ago 119

Mac sales slump in Q1 as PC market faces 8th straight quarterly decline

Apple's share of the U.S. computer hardware market slipped during the first quarter of 2014, with both IDC and Gartner seeing a year-over-year decline in worldwide PC shipments as consumers trend toward mobile.

AppleInsider Staff 12 years ago 17

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