Canalys

Counting iPads, Apple is now No. 3 in PCs

Canalys bucks the trend and includes tablets in its analysis of worldwide PC shipments

Where research firms like Gartner, IDC and NPD saw anemic single-digit PC sales last quarter, Canalys saw what it described in a report issued Wednesday as "strong PC industry growth of 19% in Q4 2010."

The difference is that Canalys, unlike those other market research firms, includes tablets like Apple's (AAPL) iPad in its definition of a PC.

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Canalys: Android growth will double competition in 2011

Fragmentation and the Verizon iPhone will not limit Android growth.

In a report today, Canalys remained rosy on Google's (GOOG) Android.  According to its Q3 2010 estimates, the Google-backed platform already claims 25% of the worldwide smart phone market.  Those numbers are expected to grow significantly in 2011.

"The growth of Android has been phenomenal, but so too has the number of related devices launched with different hardware and software specifications," said Canalys principal MORE

Canalys: Apple grabbed 26% of the U.S. smartphone market in Q3

But the combined sales of Android handsets give Google's OS a commanding 44% share

There's good news and bad news for Apple (AAPL) in Canalys' final country-level report on what it describes as world's largest smartphone market -- still, for now, the United States.

The good news is that Apple took the lead from Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry with shipments of 5.5 million iPhones in the U.S. for a 26.2% market MORE

Android grows 886%, tops US smartphone market

The latest in a series of 'Android passing iPhone' stats comes from Nielsen and Canalys this morning.

The news should hardly be a surprise to readers of this blog, but today two different reports show that Android is destroying the Smartphone competition in the US, the world's largest smartphone market.  And it isn't just iPhone this time.  For the first time, Android is out in front of Blackberry.  Androids prospects in China, MORE

iPhone passes RIM, gains on Nokia

A snapshot of the global smartphone market issued Thursday by Canalys shows just how big a dent Apple's iPhone made in the cellphone universe last quarter.

With a surge of nearly 6.9 million shipments in calendar Q3, the iPhone leapfrogged past RIM (RIMM) and Motorola (MOT) to grab 17.3% of the smartphone market.

That put Apple (AAPL) in second place after Nokia, and helped cut the market-leader's share from 51.4% to 38.9%.

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Survey: Apple, RIM benefit most from "seismic shift" to smartphones

Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and Research in Motion (RIMM)'s BlackBerry appear to be the primary beneficiaries in what ChangeWave Research describes as a "seismic shift" in the mobile phone market, as record numbers of consumers abandon their basic cell phones for more advanced models. (link)

The investment group polled 4,182 of its members in mid-January and found that the iPhone was the top choice among respondents planning to buy a new cell MORE