HP tops Apple in client PC market

71602updated 04:46 pm EDT, Fri May 4, 2012 HP edges apple by 40,000 to climb back on top

According to new figures out from analyst firm Canalys, Q1 2012 saw Apple slip from the top spot in the client PC market. Thanks to a boost in shipments, former number one company HP retook its perch atop the market for at least one quarter. The report, though, may signal troubles ahead for PC manufacturers, as it suggests seismic trends at work in the marketplace.The research firm estimates that Apple shipped 11.8 million iPads in Q1, in addition to 4 million desktops and notebooks, for a total of 15.8 million units. Canalys pegs HP's shipments at about 40,000 more units than Apple, edging out the iPad maker for the number one spot. In third place was Lenovo, followed by Acer and Dell.

Canalys' analysis showed total client PC shipments at 107 million units, up 21 percent from the previous quarter. Notebook and desktop PC shipments were up 11 and eight percent, respectively, while netbook shipments were down 34 percent year-over-year. Tablets, though, were up 200 percent year-over-year, in what cold be a troubling sign for just about all manufacturers save Apple.

Tablets represented 19 percent of all client PC shipments in Q1, up from seven percent the same quarter last year. In the United States, tablets are approaching 40 percent of all client PC shipments. The iPad dominates the tablet market, so the trend toward tablets definitely plays in Apple's favor; but Canalys cites positive signs among other tablet manufacturers as indicative of increased competitiveness in the sector. In addition to the successes companies like Samsung have had in shipping tablets, Canalys noted that increased adoption of Ivy Bridge-powered ultrabooks is cause for optimism among manufacturers.

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IDC: Apple dominates tablet market as Android numbers slide

0160(0)16updated 03:37 pm EDT, Thu May 3, 2012 Kindle Fire shipments show steep drop

Although Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet achieved a quick rise in the tablet market, Android tablet shipments have continued to slide, according to a report published by research firm IDC. As expected, Apple has solidified its dominant position with 68 percent of the tablet market.Amazon reportedly took the second place with 16.8 percent of the market in the fourth quarter after the Kindle Fire arrived on the market, however sales quickly dropped and have left the company in third place with just four percent of overall tablet shipments in the first quarter of 2012.

The decline in Fire shipments enabled Samsung to reclaim its position directly behind Apple, while Lenovo and and Barnes & Noble round out the top five.

Despite the falloff in Android shipments for the first quarter of the year, the IDC predicts that Samsung and Lenovo are poised to grow market share when their latest tablets arrive on the market.

"It seems some of the mainstream Android vendors are finally beginning to grasp a fact that Amazon, B&N, and Pandigital figured out early on: Namely, to compete in the media tablet market with Apple, they must offer their products at notably lower price points," said IDC researcher Tom Mainelli. "We expect a new, larger-screened device from Amazon at a typically aggressive price point, and Google will enter the market with an inexpensive, co-branded ASUS tablet designed to compete directly on price with Amazon's Kindle Fire."

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Apple does not Follow Market Demands – They Create Them [Opinion]

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