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.
Source: IDC
Apple is believed to have sold just under 5.14 million computers, putting it in fourth place under leaders Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Those companies sold 13.44 million, 12.25 million, and 9.56 million units respectively. Below Apple were Acer and ASUS, both roughly at 4.33 million, with a slight edge given to Acer.
In all, IDC estimates that some 66.14 million computers were shipped during the quarter, with Apple being the lone top-five vendor to post positive numbers.
Apple is said to have dodged the price competition affecting other PC vendors, and benefitted from factors like the launch of the 12-inch Retina MacBook and a concentration of U.S. shipments. The company may also be riding on uncertainty around the launch of Windows 10, IDC remarked.
Concentrating on the U.S., Apple reportedly ranked third with just under 2.21 million units sold, beaten by HP and Dell but surpassing the likes of Lenovo and Toshiba.
Source: IDC
Providing an alternate view, Gartner released its own research data, indicating that worldwide PC shipments fell 9.5 percent to 68.4 million units. The sharp drop is credited in large part to Microsoft, given last year's discontinuation of Windows XP spurring system sales, and computer makers holding inventory this year until Windows 10 becomes available. The OS is due to ship later this month.
Apple is not broken out as a specific vendor in Gartner's global figures, but they would still keep Lenovo, HP, and Dell in their leadership positions. ASUS however is ranked slightly higher than Acer with 4.65 million units versus 4.56 million.
Source: Gartner
On the American front Gartner is estimating only 1.92 million Macs sold, a dip of 2.5 percent year-over-year. The number puts Apple below Lenovo's 2 million, as well as HP and Dell.
Source: IDC
Apple is believed to have sold just under 5.14 million computers, putting it in fourth place under leaders Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Those companies sold 13.44 million, 12.25 million, and 9.56 million units respectively. Below Apple were Acer and ASUS, both roughly at 4.33 million, with a slight edge given to Acer.
In all, IDC estimates that some 66.14 million computers were shipped during the quarter, with Apple being the lone top-five vendor to post positive numbers.
Apple is said to have dodged the price competition affecting other PC vendors, and benefitted from factors like the launch of the 12-inch Retina MacBook and a concentration of U.S. shipments. The company may also be riding on uncertainty around the launch of Windows 10, IDC remarked.
Concentrating on the U.S., Apple reportedly ranked third with just under 2.21 million units sold, beaten by HP and Dell but surpassing the likes of Lenovo and Toshiba.
Source: IDC
Providing an alternate view, Gartner released its own research data, indicating that worldwide PC shipments fell 9.5 percent to 68.4 million units. The sharp drop is credited in large part to Microsoft, given last year's discontinuation of Windows XP spurring system sales, and computer makers holding inventory this year until Windows 10 becomes available. The OS is due to ship later this month.
Apple is not broken out as a specific vendor in Gartner's global figures, but they would still keep Lenovo, HP, and Dell in their leadership positions. ASUS however is ranked slightly higher than Acer with 4.65 million units versus 4.56 million.
Source: Gartner
On the American front Gartner is estimating only 1.92 million Macs sold, a dip of 2.5 percent year-over-year. The number puts Apple below Lenovo's 2 million, as well as HP and Dell.
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OMG, will M$ decide to give up supporting Windows on PC Laptops ?
I know where my spare cash is going tomorrow morning.
Macs ride out every storm. Been this way for over a decade.
Why does Gartner need to estimate Apple sales?
Apple will actually tell us the number in a couple weeks.
Surprised IDC didn't spin this as a negative for Apple.
If they showed the quantities for only personal use computers, based on my observations of what people buy,
it would show Macs at a top level.
Industry total volume figures include computers used in industry, which we know is Windows dominated because of IT people not wanting to risk their jobs being different. I know many IT workers who quietly personally use Apple's iDevices and Macs.
The same reason pundits all over the place attempt to estimate iPhone sales before Apple tells us: they view it as their job to predict stuff even though we'll know in short order.
Because $$$.
Did you see IDC's charts?
Worldwide... Apple is the only manufacturer to have growth in Q2. Everyone else dropped.
And in the US... only Apple and Lenovo showed growth in Q2.
So According to IDC... Apple did very well in Q2. I don't think IDC could spin that negative even if they wanted to.
There seems to be a discrepancy of about 280,000 units between IDC and Gartner for US sales. I'm curious to see what Apple's actual numbers are.
Who would pay for this "research" when they know it's based on guessing and/or completely wrong sometimes?
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/07/09/apple-us-mac-sales-drop-2q15/
Someone is wrong. Hope this is not right
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Come on, you know tech sites and CNBC will jump all over the Gartner report because it shows something negative about Apple. The IDC report will be disregarded because it shows something positive about Apple. Just watch.
EDIT 2015.07.10
CNBC proved me wrong this morning! http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/10/pc-shipments-plunge-apple-surges-on-macbook.html?__source=yahoo%7cfinance%7cheadline%7cheadline%7cstory&par=yahoo&doc=102824187
I noticed MacRumors hasn't changed their headline either even though they did add IDC data to their story. Negativity generates page views. Look no further than their front page story on Apple Watch data from Slice.
Somehow they will magically find a shit ton of "others" just to lower Apple's market share.
Those are the Gartner numbers shown here. It's nothing different.
But numbers given by some companies are shipping numbers anyway, and so aren't comparable.
This is a much bigger discrepancy than usual between these two. I wonder why.