Apple “losing ground on rival PC manufacturers in U.S. market”July 11, 2014 - 08:01 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Apple is losing ground on rival PC manufacturers in the U.S. computing market, new figures suggest, according to Digital Spy. Data from IDC indicates that the Mac's market share shrunk from 10.9% last year to 10% in the second quarter of 2014, with year-on-year growth down by 1.7%. The figures leave Apple in fourth place in the overall PC market, behind HP, Dell and Lenovo, with the first two holding around a quarter of the market each. Chinese manufacturer Lenovo reported an impressive 20.3% growth during the last fiscal quarter, leaving it with a 11.5% stake in the U.S. market. IDC's figures also suggest that the PC market's global decline is showing signs of slowing, with the year-on-year downturn of 1.7% the smallest reported since 2012. "The better-than-expected results seem to arise from two places. One encouraging factor was a good intake of lower-end systems, including Chromebooks, which coincides with the recent slowing in tablet growth and perhaps signals the beginning of some stabilisation on the consumer side," said IDC's Jay Chou. "In addition, a sizeable number of PCs are still running Windows XP and the impetus to upgrade them continued to boost shipments in the second quarter." Fellow analyst Gartner recently claimed that the tablet market is on course to overtake the PC sector by next year. Photo: Apple Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |