Apple is the only bright spot in the industry's worst quarter in a decade
Source: Gartner. Chart: PED
Fourth quarter personal computer numbers for the U.S. market came in from Gartner and IDC Wednesday and for the second quarter in a row, Apple (AAPL) sales grew like gangbusters while the Microsoft (MSFT) Windows PC market actually shrank.
Apple sales in the U.S. were up 20.7%, according to Gartner, while HP (HPQ) was down 21.6%, Dell (DELL) fell 4.5%, Toshiba shrank 2.2% and Asus sagged 11.4%.
Next quarter will be even worse for the broader PC market, according to both Gartner and IDC, as the effects of the floods in Thailand and the hard drive shortage fully kick in.
UPDATE: Several readers have pointed out that when you back Mac sales out of Gartner's numbers, the rest of the PC industry actually shrank by 8.6%, not the 5.9% drop shown in the chart.
But Gartner expects it to bounce back in Q4 after "strongest ever" orders for iPhone 4S
Source: Gartner, Inc.
The slowdown in iPhone sales in advance of the October release of iPhone 4S is reflected in the report on mobile phone shipments for the third quarter of 2011 issued Tuesday by Gartner, Inc.
Apple (AAPL) shipped 17 million iPhones in the quarter -- up 21% year over year but down nearly 3 million MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 15, 2011 12:27 PM ET
Their PC shipments grew by double digits while the broader market fell more than 11%
Even without counting the iPad, Apple (AAPL) gained smartly on the major personal computer vendors in Europe last quarter according to a report issued Monday by Gartner, Inc.
While the broader market for PCs fell 11.4% in the quarter, Apple's Mac shipments grew 19.6%. Only Asus, which specializes in Microsoft (MSFT) Windows-based notebooks, grew faster.
Otherwise, writes Gartner's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 14, 2011 12:14 PM ET
Analyst sees "ominous signs" for Android vendors. Says Q4 may be the quarter 'droid users switch to Apple's iPhone 4S
Click to enlarge. Source: Morgan Keegan
Drawing from AT&T's (T) and Verizon's (VZ) reports for the September quarter, Morgan Keegan's Tavis McCourt sees what could be bad news for the makers of Android phones and good news for Apple (AAPL).
In a note to clients issued Monday, he writes (I quote):
After analyzing AT&T MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 24, 2011 10:58 AM ET
IDC gives Apple an even bigger edge, with Mac's U.S. shipments outpacing PCs 80 to 1
Source: Gartner
Tim Cook may not have seen the latest numbers. Or perhaps he's just more modest than Steve Jobs was. But he understated matters somewhat when he told the press last week that the Mac outgrew the PC market almost six times in the year ending in June and that it had outpaced its MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 13, 2011 7:25 AM ET
Expected to account for 73.4% of a market that has grown more than 260% since 2010
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Gartner Inc. is a lot better at telling you what's already happened than predicting what's about to.
Witness Thursday's report on worldwide tablet sales in which it describes Apple (AAPL) as having a "free run" in the tablet market this coming holiday season, accounting for nearly three quarters of the 63.6 million units MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 22, 2011 11:29 AM ET
Among smartphone operating systems, iOS' worldwide share grew nearly 30%
Data: Gartner. Chart: PED
Apple's share of the worldwide mobile phone market (smart and not-so-smart) nearly doubled year over year in the second quarter of 2011, from 2.4% to 4.6%, according to a report issued Thursday by Gartner, Inc. That put Apple (AAPL) in fourth place among mobile phone vendors, well behind Nokia (NOK), Samsung and LG.
Apple's share of the rapidly-expanding MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 11, 2011 8:51 AM ET
Meanwhile, sales growth slowed worldwide as buyers shifted to smartphones and tablets
Source: Gartner
The iPad was the elephant in the room as Gartner and IDC reported that worldwide PC sales in the second quarter of 2011 were even worse than their modest expectations.
Shipments grew only 2.6% according to IDC and only 2.3% according to Gartner, well below the 6.7% Gartner had predicted and a fraction of the 12% IDC reported MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 14, 2011 7:14 AM ET
Wyoming and West Virginia, at 4.19% apiece, have the lowest concentration of Apple computers
Click to see intereactive map. Source: Chitika
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Apple's (AAPL) share of the U.S. PC market is still shy of 10%, according Gartner's first quarter 2011 report, but some parts of the country are more Mac friendly than others.
Drawing on research gathered between June 2 and 8 by Chitika's ad network, which serves more than than 70 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 28, 2011 6:07 AM ET
Despite higher prices, sales to end users worldwide more than doubled
Data: Gartner. Charts: Apple 2.0
Gartner issued its "mobile devices" report for the first quarter of 2011, two weeks after rival IDC's.
Here's what Gartner had to say about Apple (AAPL):
Apple sold 16.9 million units to end users worldwide, more than doubling its sales of iPhones year-on-year. This market-beating growth came from all regions: the iPhone is now available in 90 MORE
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