Apple topped all computer company posting over 30 per centum year - over - class growth rate in its Macintosh market share . According to two market inquiry firms , Apple ’s electronic computer market share has surpassed 5 percent .
“ Apple had a very undecomposed one-quarter with loading increase more than 30 percent in all regions except Japan , ” said analysts for IDC in their composition . “ The increase is an first-class star sign of the success of Apple ’s transition to Intel based systems . ”
According to IDC ’s report , the increment put Apple ’s grocery store share at 5.8 percent ( fourth place overall ) , ahead of Toshiba at 4.2 percent . Dell topped the U.S. market with 31 percent , but suffered a negatively charged increment rate of -6.7 percent . The top 5 is round out by HP with a 22 per centum share and Gateway with a 6 percent share .
“ In the U.S. market , the stress continues to be on the changeover from desktop to notebooks , with notebook growth being the lonesome lustrous place while desktop shipments continued to decline , ” said Bob O’Donnell , vice president , client and Displays at IDC .
report a $ 546 million profit on Wednesday , Apple also say that it ship over 1.6 million Macs representing over 30 percent development from the yr - agone quarter . concord to Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer , this represents the strongest quarter in the ship’s company ’s history .
food market research business firm Gartner usher standardized numbers for Apple . ( Due to differences in how the business firm calculate PC dispatch , the market place part number do vary somewhat ) .
Gartner has Apple ’s market percentage at 6.1 percent with a 31 percentage increase rate twelvemonth - over - class for the third fourth . The growth pace , consort to Gartner , tops all other computer Divine and puts Apple in fourth place overall for market share .
Topping Gartner ’s list of market share is Dell ( 32.1 percent with -7.1 percent growth ) ; HP ( 23 percent and 6.3 percent growth ) ; Gateway ( 6.4 percent with -1.1 pct growth ) ; Apple ( 6.1 percent and 31 percent growth ) ; and Toshiba ( 5.1 percent with 22.3 pct ontogeny ) .
