According to the data of the US-based research company International Data Corporation (IDC), the global PC market, which includes desktop, laptop and workstation, decreased by 5.1 percent in the first quarter of 2022. While the computer market has grown steadily in the last two years, with the transition to the distance education and working system due to COVID-19, biggest drop occurred this quarter.
While it is reported that 80.5 million computers were shipped in the first quarter of the year, when we look at the best-selling manufacturers in this period, we see the same picture with the data of the fourth quarter of 2021.
Lenovo retained its lead
According to IDC’s reports, Lenovo will launch in the first quarter of 2022. It has a 22.7 percent market share with 18.3 million sales. reached. Thus, right after the company, which is the most popular computer brand in the world, comes HP, which has a 19.7 percent market share with 15.8 million sales; Dell was third with a market share of 17.1 percent.
Introducing the new generation of Mac devices in March, Apple sold 7.2 million computers in this period and achieved a market share of 8.9 percent. In this way fourth most popular computer manufacturer The technology giant, which won the title, managed to surpass its Taiwanese rival ASUS, which reached 6.9 percent market share in the same period.
It was noted that Acer had a 6.8 percent market share with 5.4 million sales. The brands other than these 5 names and listed in the “Other” category achieved a market share of 18.0 percent by selling a total of 14.5 million computers in the first quarter of 2022.
Apple recorded significant year-over-year growth
Comparing the state of the computer market in the first quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022, it seems that Apple has grown by 4.3 percent year on year. However, Dell (6.1 percent) and ASUS (17.7 percent) were among the companies that managed to increase their market share, while others lost blood.
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