Apple’s Third Quarter PC Market Share Declines Year-Over-Year

A Gartner report comparing PC market share reveals that Apple saw -2.3% growth from 3Q12 to 3Q13 in the United States.

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 80.3 million units in the third quarter of 2013, an 8.6 percent decline from the same period last year, according to Gartner. This is the sixth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments.

Lenovo accounted for 17.6 percent of global PC shipments in the third quarter, and HP had 17.1 percent of shipments, according to preliminary results. Dell saw slight gains worldwide; whereas, Acer saw -22.6% growth and Asus saw -22.5% growth compared to the year ago quarter.


In the U.S. market, PC shipments totaled 16.1 million units in the third quarter of 2013, a 3.5 percent increase from the same period last year, registering the second consecutive quarter of shipment growth after six quarters of decline.

"Even though 3Q13 shipments were compared with artificially weak 2Q13 because of inventory control for the Windows 8 launch at the time, the 3Q13 results imply the U.S. market may have passed the worst declining stage, which started in 2010", says Gartner. "The shrinking installed base of PCs has also passed the steepest decline phase because the structural change has progressed fairly quickly. Tablets will continue to impact the PC market, but the U.S. PC market will see a more moderate decrease rather than a steep decline in the next two years."

Take a look at the charts below for more details.

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