The PC shipment of Apple Has Risen in Second Quarter

It is reported by IDC that the worldwide PC shipment has fallen 11.8%, reaching 66.1 million units. However, Apple Mac sold well and the shipment has increases to 16.1%, reaching 5.14 million units.

According to the data from IDC, Apple is the unique brand which has realized the growth in shipment. Apple ranked fourth among all worldwide PC vendors. And the top 3 are Lenovo, HP and Dell, Acer ranked behind Apple.

Though the PC shipment of Lenovo, HP and Dell has slide from the earlier year, the market shares of them still increased. The reason for that is their decline was lower than the global situation.

In terms of IDC’s analysis data, the market share of Lenovo is 20.3% in Q2 2015, declining 0.9% from the earlier year. The shipment of Lenovo has fallen down 7.5%. HP took 18.5% market share in Q2 2015. And the shipment of HP has dropped 10.4 %.

In the view of IDC, the worldwide PC shipment in Q2 2015 declined 11.8% from the earlier year, which is beyond the expectation. Compared with the business of last year, the worldwide shipment of PC declined sharply because of Microsoft’s cancelling supporting Windows XP system last year. Besides, the dollar’s stronger tendency also led to the higher prices for personal PCs, reducing the purchasing power of parts to the market. 

Microsoft plan to steal market share from iOS and Android by 2019 by virtue of Windows phone

According to analytics firm IDC, Android will have 79.4% of the global smartphone market at the end of this year. With 1.15 billion units forecast to ship in 2015, IDC expects Android to show 8.5% growth in shipments this year. Apple's iOS, with an expected 237 million iPhones shipped this year, is next with 16.4% of the global market. This would represent 23% growth year-over-year. Windows Phone will have the fastest growth this year with a 34.1% growth rate. That will give the platform a 3.2% slice of the smartphone pie with 46.8 million Windows Phone handsets shipping this year.

But what does the future look like? IDC set its sights to 2019 and predicts that 1.5 billion Android handsets will ship that year giving Google's open source OS a 79% share of the global smartphone market. It will also give the Android OS a compounded annual growth rate of 7.5% over the five years. In 2019, IDC sees iOS with 14.2% of the market. Apple will ship 274.5 million iPhones that year according to the forecast, garnering a compounded growth rate of 7.3% for iOS. 

Lastly, Windows Phone will see its share of the global smartphone market rise to 5.4% in 2019 according to IDC. That will be the result of 103.5 million Windows Phone handsets shipping that year. The platform's five year compounded growth rate is forecast to be 24.3%, more than triple the compounded growth rates that IDC expects for Android and iOS.

Of course, these figures are all nothing more than guesses made by IDC and anything could happen between now and 2019. Maybe we should just ask Cortana for her prediction.