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HP Topples Dell From No. 1 Perch In U.S.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... O'Donnell said in a statement. Indeed, Dell stumbled amidst tough competition in the retail space, Gartner said. Coupled with a weak U.S. business market as a result of the economic recession, those two factors landed Dell in the No. 2 slot. Overall, the worldwide PC market declined less than IDC expected. Shipments of desktops and laptops in the quarter fell 7.1% from the first quarter last year to 63.5 million units, slightly better than the firm's projected decline of 8.2%. Gartner pegged the drop at 6.5% to 67.2 million units. Both firms said low-priced laptops, ...
HP Topples Dell From No. 1 Perch In U.S.
TechWeb —
... O'Donnell said in a statement. Indeed, Dell stumbled amidst tough competition in the retail space, Gartner said. Coupled with a weak U.S. business market as a result of the economic recession, those two factors landed Dell in the No. 2 slot. Overall, the worldwide PC market declined less than IDC expected. Shipments of desktops and laptops in the quarter fell 7.1% from the first quarter last year to 63.5 million units, slightly better than the firm's projected decline of 8.2%. Gartner pegged the drop at 6.5% to 67.2 million units. Both firms said low-priced laptops, ...
Apple's U.S. PC Market Share Flat, Dell's Sinks
Silicon Alley Insider —
As expected, a slow quarter for PC sales: The worldwide market fell 6.5% year-over-year to 67 million units in Q1, according to market research giant Gartner. (A year ago, it grew 12% year-over-year over Q1 '07.) The U.S. market fared better, with roughly flat shipments in Q1.
Apple's Mac business leveled out after strong growth last year. U.S. Mac shipments were down 1% year-over-year, representing 7.4% of the market, according to Gartner. But that's a significant deceleration after the company grew U.S. shipments about 33% year-over-year during Q1 '08. (And grew U.S. shipments 8% year-over-year in ...
Gartner: Apple's U.S. market share slips in Q1 2009
The Apple Core —
... A new report released by Gartner says that worldwide PC shipments totaled 67.2 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a decline of 6.5 percent. We are seeing some evidence of channel inventory restocking, particularly in the U.S.,” said George Shiffler, research director at Gartner. “This restocking should not be interpreted as a recovery in PC end-user demand; it’s still unclear if the global PC market has hit the bottom. According to the report Apple’s U.S. market share dropped from 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 7.4 percent. Preliminary United States PC ...
PC sales down 7%, Dell toppled in the US
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Gartner has released estimated sales figures for this year's first quarter, and sales have held up better than expected. Worldwide PC shipments of 67.2 million units suffered a decline of 6.5%, but a bigger decline had been predicted. ...
PC sales down in Q1, Apple loses market share
Boy Genius Report —
Gartner issued its computer sales numbers yesterday evening and we’re sure no one will be overly shocked by the following: Sales are down. Overall, PC sales dipped 6.5-percent with 67.2 million units shipped during the quarter. Things certainly could have been worse of course, and there is a bright spot amidst the darkness — HP managed to push its way into the number one sales slot in the US by a pretty wide margin, selling 13.3 million units to second place Dell’s 8.8 million. As far as Apple goes, its steadily-rising market share began descending in Q109 as was expected. The growth it spent the ...
Apple market share drops slightly in the past year
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Don't look now, but Apple's slow market share incline may have just turned into a slow decline. Not only does a new report by research and advisory company Gartner, Inc say that Apple's market share in the US slipped just a little bit over the past year (from 7.5% to 7.4%), but that as you can see above, there's a steep little decline from the 8% it was in the last quarter of 2008. The PC market overall is down as well, a 6.5% decline since the beginning of last year. ...
Why Apple’s shares rose as its market share shrank
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... On Wednesday, Gartner Research reported that Apple’s (AAPL) share of the U.S. computer market, which topped 9% in calendar Q3 last year, dropped to 7.4% in Q1 2009 — putting it in fourth place behind HP (HPQ), Dell (DELL) and Acer.
The next day, Apple’s share price rose nearly 2% to finish Thursday at $121.45, its highest close in six months.
Why the disconnect? Chalk it up to the ASPs.
As Gartner’s Mikako Kitagawa notes, sales for Apple’s competitors are being driven by the ...
Why Apples shares rose as its market share shrank
MacBytes.com —
Apple shares 4/16/09 On Wednesday, Gartner Research reported that Apple’s ( AAPL ) share of the U.S. computer market, which topped 9% in calendar Q3 last year, dropped to 7.4% in Q1 2009 — putting it in fourth place behind HP ( HPQ ), Dell ( DELL ) and Acer. The next day, Apple’s share price rose nearly 2% to finish Thursday at $121.45, its highest close in six months. Why the disconnect? Chalk it up to the ASPs. As Gartner’s Mikako Kitagawa notes, sales for Apple’s competitors are being driven by the explosion of interest in low-cost ...
Dell To Buy Acer For Overseas, Netbook Push?
Silicon Alley Insider —
An interesting deal cooked up by Bernstein's Toni Sacconaghi: In a note (summarized here by Barron's), he proposes that Dell (DELL) should buy rival PC maker Acer.
Why? Because the PC market could afford consolidation, and because Acer is strong in overseas notebook sales, where Dell is weaker. One thing we'd add: Acer is also riding the netbook wave, which helped it grow Q1 shipments 27% year-over-year to a 13% global market share, according to Gartner.
Fair enough. But it's a big deal that wouldn't be easy to do right now.
Sacconaghi thinks it could cost $5.7 billion to get the deal done, a ...
Would you pay $849 for a new MacBook?
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... For example Acer, whose Aspire One netbooks are Amazon’s bestsellers, saw its U.S. market share grow 49.4% (to 13.6%) in the first quarter of 2009, according to Gartner Research, even as Apple’s share shrank to 7.4%, down 1% year to year. Mac sales actually fell last quarter for the first time in nearly six years. ...
Acer To Gamble On Google Android For Netbooks
Silicon Alley Insider —
Acer will likely be the first major PC maker to ship netbook computers that run Google's (GOOG) free, open-source Android operating system. Acer will start selling the new notebooks in Q3, according to Reuters ...
Opinion: Apple has squandered the gift that was Vista
Macworld —
... since the release of Windows Vista in November of 2006, the company’s market share remains below 10 percent, and it actually dropped in the first quarter of 2009, according to Gartner’s Worldwide PC Shipment report . To most observers, it’s fairly clear that Vista’s failings gave people a reason to take a fresh look at the Mac. And in its own right, OS X has become a robust, reliable, and feature-rich OS. It appeals both to the techie who is attracted to its UNIX underpinnings and the neophyte who wants a computer that just works. Additionally, Apple has always appealed to ...
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