Apple's Mac sales in the holiday quarter solid, beats expanding overall PC market expansio...
Apple's Mac shipments grew 7.3 percent year-on-year during the December quarter, pushing marketshare from 7.7 percent to 8.2 percent -- outpacing the PC industry as a whole.
Growth in the overall PC market was just 0.7 percent, fueled mostly by businesses, research firm IDC said in a report published this week. The strongest regions moreover were Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, as the U.S. saw dips in both desktop and laptop computers.
IDC suggested that the U.S. was impacted by the "growing popularity of other mobile form factors," referring to smartphones and tablets. Phones like the iPhone X, 8 Plus, and Samsung's Galaxy Note8 are now big and powerful enough that they can handle many tasks that were previously limited to tablets and PCs.
Apple's iPad line has meanwhile become increasingly Mac-like, mainly due to mutiltasking improvements, processor upgrades, and bigger displays.
Most of the top PC makers are still well ahead of Apple, led by HP at 23.5 percent. Even third-place Dell maintained a significant advantage in the December quarter, claming 15.7 percent. ASUS and Acer tied for fifth place with 6.4 percent, each declining versus Q4 2016.
Across the whole of 2017 Apple saw its marketshare rise 5.9 percent from 7.1 to 7.6 percent. This pace was beaten only by HP, which jumped 8.2 percent from 20.9 to 22.7 percent.
Growth in the overall PC market was just 0.7 percent, fueled mostly by businesses, research firm IDC said in a report published this week. The strongest regions moreover were Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, as the U.S. saw dips in both desktop and laptop computers.
IDC suggested that the U.S. was impacted by the "growing popularity of other mobile form factors," referring to smartphones and tablets. Phones like the iPhone X, 8 Plus, and Samsung's Galaxy Note8 are now big and powerful enough that they can handle many tasks that were previously limited to tablets and PCs.
Apple's iPad line has meanwhile become increasingly Mac-like, mainly due to mutiltasking improvements, processor upgrades, and bigger displays.
Most of the top PC makers are still well ahead of Apple, led by HP at 23.5 percent. Even third-place Dell maintained a significant advantage in the December quarter, claming 15.7 percent. ASUS and Acer tied for fifth place with 6.4 percent, each declining versus Q4 2016.
Across the whole of 2017 Apple saw its marketshare rise 5.9 percent from 7.1 to 7.6 percent. This pace was beaten only by HP, which jumped 8.2 percent from 20.9 to 22.7 percent.
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I'm not complaining, but Apple must have some unusual formula for computer parts selection that they hold fast to. I might be wrong but I keep hearing how tablets are no longer popular and convertibles laptops are in and yet Apple doesn't make any convertible laptop. Is that something that makes any sense at all for Apple to completely ignore? Why throw away potential sales? It's as though Apple isn't even trying to compete with other computer manufacturers which is their usual way of doing things.
Still, here we are in 2018 and all those 'legacy' Macs with their legacy ports are still filling the range. Hey, even the new stuff has those damn legacy ports. Who would have thought that in 2016!
Best.
i also note that while HP is the biggest with massive volume compared with Apple, it’s growth rate was higher than Apple. So quite an achievement. I note it has high end laptops as well as cheap Dreck, and it is those, the spectres, elites and omens that I am seeing more and more in unis and workplaces where I would have seen a lot of MBPs in the past.
People are paying near, at, or above MBP prices for HPs. I would not have believed that would happen 10 years ago.
This isn’t to knock Apple’s success, it is to observe that it could have done even better.
Anecdotally: my wife and I are watching all 9 seasons of Seinfeld and it's interesting to watch the various Mac models that are in Jerry's apartment throughout the years. It's been a long tradition; it's not recent.
But like someone said above, I'll wait for Apple's numbers before actually writing that.
While iPhones are common, I have yet to see one single new (late 2016 styling) MBP in the wild. Nor a MB for that matter. And professionally the same applies.
MBAs and pre late 2016 MBPs are common when I commute. For work, Macs are sparse anyway but that's because of the areas I work in and should be considered normal. If I visit HP I don't expect to see many Macs and in university settings (not students) Chromebooks dominate, for example.
While unrepresentative, I still find this detail very surprising. Especially the MB part.
This year I have no plans to visit MWC2018 unless there is an unexpected call from someone with last minute problems but the city will be packed with people towing laptops and phones and I'll see if any new MBPs appear in bars, restaurants and on public transport.
What Apple called the Mac Pro in 2013 is a descendant of the Mac Cube...
I think he's referring to the removal of legacy, one function ports on the MacBooks Pro. Because "Professionals" all need exactly the same thing and can't afford adapters or something.
It's still a matter of optimising expansion options on a portable platform with limited space as opposed to a desktop platform that doesn't get carried everywhere.
The 6,1 Mac Pro was a fashionable guess at what Apple thought the next five years of computer design was going to bring, with ever-faster CPUs and a relatively slow GPU advancement. They guessed wrong, as they got relatively slow CPU advancements, and dramatic GPU gains.
Similarly worthless, blue line Metro in and out of DC is loaded with the MacBook, with a periodic 2016+ MacBook Pro. The older MBPs and Airs seem to be going by the wayside.