Cloud Computing: Analysts show that Apple Unseats HP in Client PCs
January 31, 2012
Apple was the leading worldwide client PC vendor in Q4, pushing HP off its perch, according to Canalys, which unlike Gartner and IDC, doesn’t hesitate to lump tablets in with desktops, netbooks and notebooks.
It says that since Apple shipped over 15 million iPads and five million Macs last quarter it did 17% of the total 120 million client PCs shipped globally, up 6% year-over-year. Canalys also figures that if tablets are thrown in, the total client PC market grew 16% year-on-year. If they aren’t, the client PC market declined 0.4%. Canalys predicts that "HP will struggle to compete with Apple following the end of its Touchpad" given doubts about how Windows 8 will do on HP tablets once it’s out…
HP is also being pressured from below by Lenovo, the only vendor besides Apple to add market share last quarter. It’s looking to displace HP.
Tablets, the contrarian researcher said, accounted for 22% of total PC shipments in Q4. Amazon is second behind Apple in tablets worldwide thanks to the Kindle Fire. All regions grew year-on-year counting tablets. Excluding tablets, however, shipments in EMEA and North America declined, due to weaker consumer demand, despite the traditional Q4 holiday tickle.
Notebook volumes rose in Asia Pacific and Latin America.