Lead by gains in the US market both for its Mac computers and its iPhone6 lineup, Apple continued to gain share where rivals lost it in the latest reports from both Gartner and ComScore. Although Apple actually lost a tenth of a percent in marketshare in smartphones in the US from last quarter, chief rival Samsung dropped ten times more, falling 1.1 percent on weaker demand, despite the release of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. Apple now has 12 percent marketshare in the US, a nine percent gain year-over-year.
In the US market, Apple accounts for 41.7 percent of all smartphones shipped, far outstripping Samsung, which dropped 1.1 percent to 28.6 percent. LG picked up 0.7 percent share to come in third with 8.3 percent, followed by a basically stagnant Motorola and HTC, at 5.1 percent and 3.8 percent respectively. Because of Samsung's notable drop, the overall percentage of Android shipments in the US dropped 0.5 percent.
While Android as a platform continues to dominate with 52.8 percent of shipments as of February of this year (a 0.2 percent uptick), Apple by itself as a platform is not far behind at 41.7 percent. Microsoft saw a 0.1 percent gain to 3.5 percent, while BlackBerry continued to sink with a 0.2 percent drop to 1.8 percent share, while Symbian(an OS for feature phones) rounded out the top five platforms at 0.1 percent share.
Gartner reported significant gains for Apple in the US market over the first quarter in computer shipments, retaining its third-place spot behind HP and Dell, though the latter's share plunged noticeably to 3.2 million, a drop of 3.8 percent year-over-year. While HP managed a 3.5 growth in the same period, and other top five Windows OEMs saw double-digit gains, it wasn't enough to stop the PC industry as a whole from posting a 1.3 percent drop in shipments in the US, and a 5.2 percent drop worldwide.
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On a global scale, Lenovo grew 5.7 percent to achieve a 19 percent market share, causing it to again outrank perennial leader HP, which grew 2.5 percent to 17.3 percent share of shipments. Dell fell even further in worldwide rankings with a 5.1 percent drop, but held on to third place worldwide with a 12.6 market share. Asus and Acer both lost share, falling 2.9 percent and 6.8 percent respectively, with each holding just over seven percent of global shipments.
The biggest losses were in the combined "others" category (which includes Macs on the global scale), where despite the iPhone makers' notable gains worldwide, the average dropped 13.2 per cent to hold an aggregate 36.5 percent. In the US, sales of PCs outside of the top five saw an 18.3 percent year-over-year drop, falling to 19.6 percent of all PC sales. In all, 14 million PCs were shipped in calendar Q1 of 2014 in the US, and 71.7 million units ships worldwide in the same period.
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According to an analyst at Gartner, the overall PC decline in the US was down to a double-digit drop among desktops, compared to a year-over-year gain for notebooks. Mikato Kitagawa blamed "the end of the Windows XPreplacement cycle" as a cause of the poor desktop performance, rather than the simpler idea that an increasing number of users find that mobile devices meet their needs, and thus do not replace aging desktops as frequently as when they were more heavily dependent on them.
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