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Dell hits second place in PC shipments
TIN BOX FLOGGER Dell has leap-frogged Acer to take second place in global PC sales, thanks to Apple's over-priced Ipad.
It's been expected that tablets would cannibalise PC sales. The latest roundup of data from research house Isuppli bears out that tablets, especially Apple's Ipad, ate into Acer's PC sales last quarter. Topped with more competition in the consumer-focused netbook and notebook markets, Acer's sales plummeted and that led the way for Dell to take second place, maybe mostly by luck.
Isuppli's sales figures show that it was a mere stroke of luck that saw Dell sitting pretty in second place behind HP at number one. Dell's lead in unit shipments over Acer increased to 1.9 per cent in the fourth quarter. But they were only up 0.4 per cent from the previous quarter.
Dell's market share remained level across the board as the company shipped around 11 million units. While Dell wasn't hit by tablet sales, Acer was taking punishment from Apple's Ipad and its unit shipments dropped 12.9 per cent from the prior quarter. HP retained its first place spot with over 18 million PCs shipped in the fourth quarter.
"Acer in the third quarter of 2009 had surged to the No. 2 spot on the strength of its strong sales of netbook PCs to consumers and a generally buoyant consumer market," said Isuppli principal analyst Matthew Wilkins.
"However, with momentum for consumer PCs waning and in light of growing competition from media tablets, Acer's gains have been reversed," he added.
Don't be too smug though, fanbois. While Apple has been eating into laptop PC sales and The INQUIRER reported in February that the Ipad owned 93 per cent of the tablet market, those statistics were collated before there was any competition in the tablet market, and that is changing. µ
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Your comment only backs up the statement that Apple will loose market share. FYI Android smartphones started out small, too.
We patiently wait for Apple to invent the next form-factor craze just so Android can steal that market, too. :)
"Don't be too smug though, fanbois. While Apple has been eating into laptop PC sales and The INQUIRER reported in February that the Ipad owned 93 per cent of the tablet market, those statistics were collated before there was any competition in the tablet market, and that is changing."
From Ars Technica today:
IDC is predicting that Apple will hold on to 70 to 80 percent of the tablet market in 2011. Forrester is betting on closer to 80 percent, at least in the US. "We expect 24.1 million tablets to sell in the US this year, at least 20 million of which will be iPads," Rotman said. Those figures are further supported by market research firm ChangeWave's latest consumer survey on tablet demand. Consumers planning to by a tablet overwhelmingly consider an iPad their top choice—82 percent plan to get an iPad in the next 90 days—while the Xoom, PlayBook, and Galaxy Tab only garnered a few percentage points each.
11 000 per quarter ? three digits missing