Apple regains third place in US PC sales
APPLE HAS POWERED back into third place in PC sales volume in the US market during the second quarter, according to reports released Wednesday by both International Data Corp (IDC) and Gartner.
IDC had Apple virtually in a tie with Acer, trailing it by only 2,000 units, while Gartner had Apple substantially ahead of Acer by some 65,000 units.
Both IDC and Gartner had Apple in fourth place in US PC sales for the second quarter of 2007, as compared with merged Acer and Gateway sales. With Acer and Gateway ranked separately in the second quarter 2007, Apple came in third then, too.
Gartner said US PC shipments in the second quarter totaled 16.4 million units, an increase of 4 per cent compared to the same period last year.
In the overall US PC market, Dell came in first during the second quarter with 5.25 million PC sales for 31.9 per cent market share, according to Gartner. IDC had Dell's sales as 5.44 million units for 32 per cent market share. The IT market watchers estimated Dell's second quarter PC sales growth at between 11 and 12 per cent, year over year.
HP stayed in second place with 4.17 million PC sales for 25.3 per cent market share, by Gartner's statistics. IDC reckoned HP's PC sales at 4.26 million units and 25.2 per cent market share. Both IDC and Gartner reported HP as having had slower PC sales growth than Dell had in the second quarter, at 5.6 per cent and 5.9 per cent, respectively. HP's PC sales growth barely beat the growth of the overall US PC market in the second quarter.
Acer's US PC sales slowed following its acquisition of Gateway last year, dropping 20.8 per cent year over year in the second quarter, according to Gartner. It reported Acer's second quarter PC sales amounted to 1.33 million units for 8.1 per cent market share.
Apple's PC sales grew the most of any vendor's in the second quarter. IDC figured Apple's PC sales growth at 31.7 per cent, while Gartner pegged it at 38.1 per cent. IDC said Apple sold 1.32 million PCs, but Gartner said Apple sold 1.4 million PCs. IDC had Apple's second quarter US PC sales market share at 7.8 per cent versus Gartner's report of 8.5 per cent.
In the global marketplace, Apple hasn't yet made it into the top five PC vendors, though. µ
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Apple has a long way to go if they are still under 9% of total U.S. sales.

This is actually a good thing, since Apple users derive some benefit from not being popular (no need for antivirus utilities since no crackerz care about us.)

I have all the software I could need for my Apple and I'd be very happy if Apple sat at 10% of the market forever, but then again I'm not a shareholder.

Off topic... I can't believe how much Apple is charging Europeans for their goods! - it is ridiculous. There doesn't seem to be any reason for it. Is it your VAT, or whatever?