Macs have your highest share of the PC market now ever, according to IDC.(Credit: CNET\Sarah TEW)U.S. computer sales were rather disappointing during the past three months, unless you're talking about Macs.
IDC quarterly PC Tracker survey released today sent Apple 1.99 million Macs in the United States in the third quarter of 2010.Thats supplied according to IDC Apple's share good for 10.6 percent of 18.9 million PCs in the United States, set the highest in the United States in its history.
While the 24.3 percent and Dell's 23.1% is still far behind Hewlett-Packard's, both of these companies remained relatively last year statische.Apple broadcasts 24 percent versus the same quarter saw its programmes a year ago grow.
And it is not only the growth of HP and Dell it is besting: the entire U.S. PC market in the third quarter grew 3.8 percent from a year ago, (although it was predicted 11 percent), d. grew h. Apple shipments of Macs with eight times the rate of everyone else. It has been quite remarkable gesattelt with the label "too expensive" computer given the continuing weakness in the economy and enterprise-whether correct or not.
So why Apple is so good computer sell now?IDC analyst David Daoud says that iPad actually can be one of the reasons.
"It is very possible that the iPad's affect marketing right now [Apple's Mac] business as a halo effect, watched how we with the iPod a few years ago", he said."The dynamics went on with the iPhone, now the iPad is a similar role seems, stimulating play distribution through its product line."
Apple sold more than 3 million iPads between April and June, and it is very likely that we updated number for sales will receive in the last three months, when Apple reported their quarterly earnings results on Monday.What is interesting is the proposal that iPad helping not taking away sales of Macs, but you ist.Im unlike the iPod has a completely different use case as a Mac, it has discussion about whether the iPad in some cases can replace a laptop computer.
Best buy's CEO was last month who say that the iPad in notebook sales around as much as 50 percent had cut zitiert.Obwohl he later, he said only the 50% figure was secured from this statement a "gross exaggeration."He didn't say there was no cannibalization effect.
Either way, it's good news for the Mac business that does not get nearly the attention to, with the iPhone and iPad raking in huge amounts of revenue for the company and the clear trend in the industry towards highly mobile verwendet.Aber we know for sure that next week we more on the Mac and Mac OS hear X, hält.Hier when talking about a special event at the hardware and the next version of the Mac operating system Apple is, what we on the Mac front see might expected CNET.
Although total sales of consumers not so hot have company computer seller a decent company sold IDC sagt.Lenovo, strong and large companies in the third quarter, expected "commercial refresh" grew up 32.9% in the global Umsatz.Der long - cycle of the companies replace employee computer and IT facilities en masse-- on schedule continued.
Perennial world-wide market leader HP saw little change in volume, claimed its place no. 2 with 13 percent of shipments ausgeliefert.Acer 17.7 percent of 89.3 million computers in the third quarter reclaimed, Dell fell to third place with 12.5 percent secured, Lenovo claimed 10.3 percent of shipments and newcomer ASUS remained in the top five with 5.4 percent of shipments.
Gartner also today released its market share results and saw similar figures: HP with 17.5 percent shipments worldwide, Acer 13.1 12.2 Dell, Lenovo 10.4 and ASUS 5.4 percent.
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