Folks, look at the numbers below, this isn't iPad, iPod, iPhone, or any other i product, it's computer sales.
Af few years ago Apple was at 1% to 2% of the market computer sales, now we are only 4.2% behind the leader, can you believe this!!!! Apple Holds Upper Hand in PC Decline By Chris Ciaccia - 07/11/13 - 12:00 PM EDT Tickers in this article: AAPL DELL HPQ MSFT Updated from 9:28 a.m. ET to provide more analysis in the second paragraph. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The PC market continues to decline sharply, falling 10.9% year-over-year in the second quarter to just 76 million units, according to Gartner. That's going to put a lot of pressure on companies such as Microsoft , HP and even Apple , as the companies struggle to figure out where the bottom is. For the actual PC makers themselves, such as HP and Dell , the story is a little more bleak. These companies do not have the luxury of selling software to all the original equipment manufacturers like Microsoft does. Lenovo, which claimed the top spot from HP with 16.7% market share, runs Windows, and allows Microsoft to at least diversify its revenue base among hardware makers. Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White expects HP and Dell to continue losing share, as tablets continue to eat away at PC-spend dollars, and as Asian competitors, such as Lenovo, continue to rise. "We believe Lenovo will ultimately be the dominant player in the PC market and we expect other Asia-based vendors to rise in prominence, while we expect Hewlett-Packard and Dell to continue losing PC share in the coming years," White wrote in his note. HP owns 16.3% of the market as of the end of the second quarter, according to Gartner, and 16.4% according to IDC. Apple is in a much different position than either HP or Dell, as the iPad has largely been responsible for the drastic decline in PC sales. Apple is still the No. 3 seller of computers in the U.S. market with 11.5% share as of the second-quarter John
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