Apple continued to win out in terms of tablet market share this past quarter, according to the latest figures from ABI Research, with a 55 percent share of all shipments during the period. That’s a lead it has had since 2010 when the iPad was introduced, but it’s also the slimmest lead it’s ever had, and represents a dip of 14 percent versus the previous quarter.
Today during Apple’s Q1 2013 conference call, CEO Tim Cook was asked about whether Apple was concerned about Apple’s overall market share in smartphones.
Well, folks, the July 2012 ComScore numbers are in and we’re seeing more of the same… Samsung and Android are both still leading in market share. Sammy posted a 25.6 percent lead in the U.S. market, down 0.3 percent from April, but still dominant overall.
First quarter notebook PC revenues grew to $31.1 billion -- a six percent quarter-to-quarter increase, a 31 percent year-to-year boost, and the best quarter since Q3 2008, says DisplaySearch. Leading the way were mini-note PCs (netbooks), and slates (tablets), which together grew 56.4 percent year-over-year, says the research firm, but tablets are expected to start cutting into netbook sales....
Apple’s iPad still dominates the overall tablet market. But Samsung Galaxy tablets seem to be emerging as the Google Android standard. That’s The VAR Guy’s spin, based on IDC’s latest tablet sales research.
For the first time in the history of comScore’s MobiLens U.S. mobile market share report, Apple has come in second overall among handset OEMs. Apple grew its U.S. market share by 1.5 percentage points from 16.3 to 17.8 percent in the three-month period ending October 2012, according to the report.
Sales of tablets have been booming for a long time, but according to a new report just out, sales in the Australian and New Zealand market have cooled, rising just 3.1 percent (quarter on quarter) in the third quarter this year, with 434,000 units shipped. Apple, however, continues its rise with the iPad 2, while Android sales are subdued.
AMD (NYSE: AMD) blamed much of its 10 percent revenue dip for Q2 2012 on poor channel sales of its Llano desktop APUs, particularly in Europe and China.
The chipmaker, which earlier this month warned investors it could post an 11 percent year-over-year revenue decline for the period, recorded $1.41 billion in sales, a 10 percent slide from last year, and earnings of $37 million during the quarter,
With Apple just ending its conference call for its quarterly results, Strategy Analytics has published its numbers on global tablet sales for the quarter.
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