iPad lifts Apple to top of mobile PC maker chart
Fondleslab factor fails to aid HP, Dell et al
Apple has again been named the world's biggest seller of mobile computers, but it wouldn't even make the top five were it not for the iPad.
Fit the fondleslab into the figures and Apple comes away with a Q4 2011 mobile PC market share of 26.6 per cent, a result of shipping 23.4m units during the quarter, market watcher NPD DisplaySearch said today.
Its nearest rival, HP, shipped a mere 8.7m units, enough to grant it a 9.9 per cent share of the market.
Focus solely on laptop computers, though, and Apple's share falls to 8.3 per cent, while HP's rises to 15.5 per cent. The Mac maker shipped 4.6m MacBook machines in Q4 2011.
Below HP sit Dell, Acer and Lenovo, their tablet-inclusive market shares calculated at 7.9 per cent, 7.7 per cent and 7.2 per cent, respectively.
They retain those rankings when tablets are omitted from the tally, with unit-shipment figures around 200,000 fewer than those with tablets included.
None of them shipped sufficient tablets to make DisplaySearch's list of the top five tablet vendors. Below Apple's 59.1 per cent share of this segment sit Amazon with 16.7 per cent, Samsung with 6.7 per cent, Asus with 4.6 per cent and US bookseller Barnes & Noble with 3.5 per cent.
Even the latter's quarterly tablet shipments - 1.1m units - far exceeded those of Dell, Acer and Lenovo. ®
COMMENTS
Apple sells a lot of stuff
But not as much stuff as you think (so long as you don't count some of the stuff it sells)
Re: What happened to the recession and economic downturn?
Or maybe people are buying iPads instead of cheap laptops.
Record?
Does this make the iPad2 the best selling computer of all time, easily beating the approx. 17 million Commodore 64s sold?
US Figures only
given this
US bookseller Barnes & Noble with 3.5 per cent.
What happened to the recession and economic downturn?
Okay, so there are 20 million people in the world who are not impacted by austerity measures, pay cuts, ballooning energy bills, etc.Or were they just willing to make an extra sacrafice to buy an Apple branded tablet rather than an Acer, HP or Samsung one?
