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IDC confirms Apple now surpassed by Samsung in smartphones

Rue Liu, Nov 3rd 2011 Discuss [4]

Research firm IDC has issued new data today further confirming recent reports that Samsung has overtaken Apple in worldwide smartphone shipments. Samsung is said to have shipped 23.6 million smartphones during the summer, which puts it in the lead with a 20 percent share of the global smartphone market. The wait and anticipation for the iPhone 4S drove Apple's iPhone shipments down to second place. Read The Full Story

IDC: Tablets beat estimates, Android down, iOS up, Amazon’s tablet is actually an e-reader

Rue Liu, Sep 14th 2011 Discuss [3]

Research firm IDC released some interesting data this morning regarding tablet shipments for Q2 of 2011 as well as predictions for the second half of the year. Beating estimates, tablet shipments are now expected to reach 62.5 million in 2011, up from the original forecast of 53.5 million units. Apple's iPad 2 shipments continue to surge as Android slips and RIM enters. WebOS share will disappear by Q1 of 2011 and the much anticipated Amazon tablet is actually an e-reader. Read The Full Story

IDC: tablets, smartphones to surpass PCs in internet use by 2015

Rue Liu, Sep 12th 2011 Discuss [9]

According to a new report from market research firm IDC, mobile internet usage on smartphones and tablets will surpass internet usage on PCs by 2015. The firm predicts that devices like the iPad, iPhone, and Android phones and tablets would grow at an average of 16.6 percent annually, while PC use would eventually decline as the tablet market picks up. Read The Full Story

Chinese geeks buy more PCs than Americans do

Shane McGlaun, Aug 24th 2011 Discuss [3]

We know that sales of the typical sort of notebooks, netbooks, and desktop computers are sagging while the sale of tablets is booming in the US and other parts of the world. The numbers look good for PC shipments in part because tablets are figured into those figures. IDC has announced that in Q2 2011 Chinese consumers purchased more PCs than Americans did. We also mentioned not long ago that Apple had passed Lenovo for the top spot in sales inside China. Read The Full Story

IDC: Apple At The Top, Worldwide Smartphone Market Grows 65.4% In Q2 2011

Rue Liu, Aug 4th 2011 Discuss [1]

According to a new report from market research firm IDC, the worldwide mobile phone market has grown 65.4% in the second quarter of 2011 when compared to the same quarter last year. Results from Q2 2011 also mark the third consecutive month in which sales were over 100 million units. And who's right up at the top? Well, we already know that's Apple. Read The Full Story

Apple Now Number One Mobile Brand In Australia

Rue Liu, Jun 27th 2011 Discuss [3]

The Apple brand continues to surge when it comes to mobile devices despite the growing competition. According to a new report from IDC, the first quarter 2011 results show that Apple has become the number one mobile brand in Australia for the very first time. The market there has mainly been dominated by Nokia, but this year the Symbian platform has seen a huge tumble along with a dip in demand for feature phones. Read The Full Story

IDC Report: Apple 2nd Place In Smartphones Worldwide

Rue Liu, May 5th 2011 Discuss [2]

According to a new report from research firm IDC, the worldwide shipment of smartphones has increased almost 80 percent when comparing the first quarter of 2011 with the same quarter in 2010. Vendors have shipped a total of almost 100 million units in Q1 of this year, nearly double from 55 million units in the same quarter last year. And, now Apple sits in second place just behind Nokia on the list of top five smartphone vendors in the world. Read The Full Story

iPhone sees 115% market share growth as LG dwindles

Chris Davies, Apr 29th 2011 Discuss [4]

It's a week of bad news for ZTE: not only has Huawei sued them, but Apple has snatched back its place in the IDC global phone rankings for the past quarter. Having taken fourth place in Q4 2010, ZTE now slips to fifth; Apple takes fourth with 18.7m shipments for 5-percent of the mobile phone market, behind LG in third, Samsung in second and Nokia maintaining first place. Read The Full Story

PC Market Not Looking Pretty for Q1 2011

Samia Perkins, Apr 14th 2011 Discuss [1]

Research firms Gartner and IDC have come out with their quarterly look at the PC market in the US and worldwide. With some exceptions, the results are not good. Only three companies, Lenovo, Apple, and to a lesser extent, Toshiba, posted gains for PC sales in Q1. The two reports differ on how large the decline in the total market is, and also on the cause. Is it tablets? Lack of innovation in PCs? Or just a lingering hangover from big Q4 spending? See all the numbers after the cut. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone number two smartphone OS by 2015 predicts IDC

Chris Davies, Mar 29th 2011 Discuss [6]

Android will take the top spot for smartphone OS worldwide in 2011, analysts IDC have predicted, pushing iOS into third place behind Symbian. As for Microsoft, while the Symbian-faithful aren't entirely convinced by Nokia's decision to climb aboard the Windows Phone train, IDC is more confident in the two companies' partnership. "By 2015, IDC expects Windows Phone to be number 2 operating system worldwide behind Android," senior research analyst Ramon Llamas predicts. Read The Full Story

IDC Reports processor shipments flat in Q4 2010 year-over-year

Shane McGlaun, Feb 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

When it comes to tracking the computer market IDC is one of the research firms we all look to for an idea how well things are going. IDC has issued its report for worldwide PC microprocessor shipments for Q4 2010 this week and ranked the vendors on unit and a revenue basis. Read The Full Story

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Apple Now 4th Largest Global Mobile Phone Vendor

Ben Bajarin, Oct 29th 2010 Discuss [13]

During my work as a market analyst with Creative Strategies,Inc we are constantly analyzing market share of whatever companies or products we are tracking. My colleagues over at IDC have recently released numbers showing that Apple has now entered fourth place passing R.I.M in worldwide shipments of mobile phones. Some people may read this and think these numbers are just for SmartPhone shipments however that is not the case. Apple is now the fourth largest mobile phone vendor globally of total units shipped.