iPad & MacBooks combine to give Apple 27% share of all mobile PC shipments
The combined total of iPad and MacBook shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011 gave Apple a whopping 26.6 percent share of the mobile PC market, nearly tripling the share held by second-place HP.
Apple's market dominance was revealed on Thursday by NPD DisplaySearch, which tracks mobile PC shipments. They found that Apple shipped 18.7 million iPads, representing nearly 80 percent of the company's mobile PC shipments during the holiday quarter.
When Apple's record iPad sales were combined with its best-ever MacBook sales, Apple achieved shipments of 23.4 million units, good for a 26.6 percent share. That was well ahead of HP's 9.9 percent share from 8.7 million units.
Coming in third was Dell, which shipped 6.9 million mobile PCs and took a 7.9 percent share. Acer was in fourth with 6.8 million shipped for 7.7 percent, while Lenovo was fifth, shipping 6.3 million units for 7.2 percent.
With iPad and portable Mac sales combined, Apple shipped 62.8 million mobile PCs in 2011, DisplaySearch said in its "Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report." That's up 132 percent year over year, led mostly by the iPad, with 48.4 million total units shipped in calendar 2011.
"Mobile PC brands read the writing on the wall in the fourth quarter," said Richard Shim, senior analyst with NPD DisplaySearch. "Consumer demand for notebooks was expected to be weak following modest back-to-school results, especially with the expected launch of Windows 8 on the horizon, and increasing interest in tablet PCs. As a result, brands focused their typical holiday price cuts on tablets to boost demand."
Apple commanded 59.1 percent of all tablet shipments in the quarter, well ahead of the 16.7 percent share Amazon took in second place with its Kindle Fire. DisplaySearch tracking found that Amazon shipped 5.3 million units in the quarter, more than doubling the 2.1 million tablets shipped by Samsung.
While Apple dominated in tablets, its MacBook lineup came in fifth place among notebook PC shipments with 4.6 million units shipped and an 8.3 percent share. In first place was HP, which shipped 8.7 million laptops and took 15.5 percent of the market.
In second was Dell, which shipped 6.7 million laptops for 11.8 percent, followed closely by Acer with 6.6 million portable PCs, and Lenovo, with 6.1 million.
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I'm still not convinced that the iPad is a "PC", but rather a post-PC device. Still, Apple's market share of mobile computing devices is impressive.
The iPad is a mobile PC as much as many other computing devices that qualify as laptops. It may not have all the bells and whistles of a top of the range MBP, but neither do most low end laptops.
I'm still not convinced that the iPad is a "PC", but rather a post-PC device. Still, Apple's market share of mobile computing devices is impressive.
Please see the original article:
http://www.displaysearch.com/cps/rde..._full_year.asp
They did a pretty good job of breaking out tablets vs laptops.
The tablet info is interesting. Apple 18.7 M, Amazon 5.3 M, Samsung 2.1 M. It would be interesting to know how they counted Amazon's products. The number appears to be too large for just Fire shipments, but too low for all Kindle products.
I'm still not convinced that the iPad is a "PC", but rather a post-PC device. Still, Apple's market share of mobile computing devices is impressive.
Is it a computer? Yes.
Is it a personal computing device? Yes.
Think of it as PC 2.0.
I'm still not convinced that the iPad is a "PC", but rather a post-PC device. Still, Apple's market share of mobile computing devices is impressive.
Prior to iOS 5, the iPad was not a PC. Now that it can be set up and used as a standalone device without having to involve another computer at any point, I think it's legitimate to classify it as a PC.
I'm still not convinced that the iPad is a "PC", but rather a post-PC device. Still, Apple's market share of mobile computing devices is impressive.
There many ways to look at it. This reminds me when someone asked me if the Bahamas were part of the Caribbean and I didn't know what answer would be best.
As already stated they are computers and they are personal. We also count all other tablets that are running a desktop version of Windows as "PCs' so the exclusion seems to be from the OS. We're also seeing the iPad (not other tablets) stealing "PC" marketshare.
Personally I think it should be separate if they think it should be separate. I also don't think that the Kindle Fire should be counted because it's really just an eReader that was given some multimedia HW and SW support and missing a lot of the aspects that would me a "PC" replacement.
IF Windows 8 can make any headway on tablets perhaps we'll see a change in how the tablet market is recorded. Are they going to split the Win8 OS sales between device types or just lump them together.
Prior to iOS 5, the iPad was not a PC. Now that it can be set up and used as a standalone device without having to involve another computer at any point, I think it's legitimate to classify it as a PC.
That was certainly the leading argument as to why it's not a PC or a replacement for a PC, but since the iOS 5 betas first came out nearly a year ago the goal posts have moved.
But until i can have a mouse ( cause it's not efficient in my mind to constantly be touching the screen) then i will see my Ipad as a step below a PC. Especially since some websites still use flash.
I have to join the conversation whether or not and ipad is a "PC". As an owner of the Ipad 2, I say it is not a "PC". If you can add a mouse to the Ipad and M$ office with close to full functions. I will classify the Ipad more like a device for low to mid range computing. Being an engineering major, the ipad will do little of what i need it to do as far as programs. That said, it is great for when i don't need the engineering specific programs.
But until i can have a mouse ( cause it's not efficient in my mind to constantly be touching the screen) then i will see my Ipad as a step below a PC. Especially since some websites still use flash.
That's a ridiculous argument.
Please see the original article:
http://www.displaysearch.com/cps/rde..._full_year.asp
They did a pretty good job of breaking out tablets vs laptops.
The tablet info is interesting. Apple 18.7 M, Amazon 5.3 M, Samsung 2.1 M. It would be interesting to know how they counted Amazon's products. The number appears to be too large for just Fire shipments, but too low for all Kindle products.
I also find it interesting that they noted that Apple numbers include inventories and at the same time they don't note that other tablet numbers are estimates
I would like to see the breakdown of portable PC sales by price. Which brands are selling more in each price range? Do HP and Dell only have good sales in the low end market? Which percentage of their sales is for items below $300 or above $400? Which company is leading in each price segment? I suppose they don't publish that data.
I'd be more interested to see a chart showing PERSONAL computer purchases separated out from corporate or educational purchases. It would be telling, I bet, to see the numbers when the individual gets to make the call on which computer they will buy rather than an IT dept making that decision for them.
But until i can have a mouse ( cause it's not efficient in my mind to constantly be touching the screen)?
Especially since some websites still use flash.
I have to join the conversation whether or not and ipad is a "PC". As an owner of the Ipad 2, I say it is not a "PC". If you can add a mouse to the Ipad and M$ office with close to full functions. I will classify the Ipad more like a device for low to mid range computing. Being an engineering major, the ipad will do little of what i need it to do as far as programs. That said, it is great for when i don't need the engineering specific programs.
But until i can have a mouse ( cause it's not efficient in my mind to constantly be touching the screen) then i will see my Ipad as a step below a PC. Especially since some websites still use flash.
But I have a brand new netbook with Win 7 installed. It does Flash, can have a mouse attached but I would classify it as a device for very low range computing. It grinds to a halt with running Flash, I would not even try running any type of graphics program on it and running office apps is just so frustrating its not worth the bother.
How functional a device is depends entirely on what your needs are so as a criteria it is useless. Will an iPad become a PC if it fulfills all my needs? A large percentage of people that work in offices use PC's but have needs that could arguably be fulfilled with iPads.
I think that there probably needs to be many ways of counting and in each instance the reasons for the criteria need to be stated. In other words there will never be one definitive way of counting market share - some times a computing device is a PC and other times it is not.
If they 'iPhone' the iPad's price points with iPad 2 down sizing it's price relative to the iPad 3 it will really give the squeeze.
Amazon only have traction under the iPad.
A lower priced iPad 2 and an iPad mini later will suck the oxygen out of the market.
The writing IS on the wall for HP/Dell etc.
Between laptops and iPads that's an astonishing % of mobile computing. Quite the turnaround from 1997.
With new airs, macbooks and iPads...it's a world of hurt for the opposition this year.
I'll be buying the iPad 3 for starters...
Lemon Bon Bon.
There was a collective shrugging of shoulders, and a lot of mentioning of Apple products, all mobile.
Is it a computer? Yes.
Is it a personal computing device? Yes.
Think of it as PC 2.0.
Yes it is a computer but so is the electronic fuel injection module on my car. My criteria for a personal computer is the ability to write a program on that computer that can be executed on the same machine and be saved to a user accessible file system.
Not to take anything away from the practicality of an iPad. It is a fantastic personal computing device but it is not a real PC in my opinion.
Also if an iPad can be a PC why not make the iPhone a PC. Does screen size have anything to do with being a PC or not?
Yes it is a computer but so is the electronic fuel injection module on my car.
You missed the personal part.
My criteria for a personal computer is the ability to write a program on that computer that can be executed on the same machine and be saved to a user accessible file system.
Not to take anything away from the practicality of an iPad. It is a fantastic personal computing device but it is not a real PC in my opinion.
And how many people want to do that? Do you really think a criteria that applies to 1% of computer users should dictate in what category a device should be?