Weaker than expected growth in the U.S. PC market was balanced by stronger growth in other regions, as worldwide PC shipments increased 10.3 percent in the first quarter of 2005, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide PC shipments totaled 50.4 million units in the first quarter of 2005, up from 45.7 million in the same period last year.
“The shortfall in the U.S. market was made up for by stronger than expected growth in Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region,” said Charles Smulders, vice president of Gartner’s Computing Platforms Worldwide Group in the press release. “On a worldwide basis, we judge corporate demand to have been weaker than expected.”
Dell’s worldwide growth rate fell below 20 percent for the first time in ten quarters, pulled down by a weaker performance in the U.S. market. Despite this, Dell’s growth rate of 13.7 percent (see Table 1) remained higher than the worldwide average, and it extended its lead in the worldwide rankings.
Hewlett-Packard had a reasonable quarter growing at the worldwide market rate. Both Dell and HP grew at a much faster pace in their non-domestic markets than in the United States.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple shipped 1,070,000 Macintosh units worldwide in the first quarter quarter of 2005 (Apple’s fiscal Q2 2005) as reported in Apple’s 8-K filing this past Wednesday.
In the U.S. market, lower pricing drove sales of notebooks in the first quarter, however it was not enough to offset the declines in desktop PC shipments.
Despite disappointing results for most vendors in the U.S. market, Apple moved into the fifth position in the U.S. market, ahead of Toshiba. Apple’s PC shipments in the United States increased 45.1 percent in the first quarter (see Table 2). The growth of the iMac and PowerBook categories were key drivers for the company.
Gateway approached the one year anniversary of its merger with eMachines. The company experienced a 23.4 percent decline in shipments in the U.S. market during the first quarter. Gartner analysts said the decline underlines Gateway’s dependence on the consumer market. The first quarter is a seasonally weak consumer quarter.
These results are preliminary. Final statistics will be available soon to clients of Gartner’s PC Quarterly Statistics Worldwide by Region program. Additional research can be found on Gartner’s Client Platforms Focus Area on Gartner’s Web site at http://www.gartner.com/research/focus_areas/asset_57051_815.jsp
Is Apple eaating Gateway’s lunch
Hmmm…
So, in the US, the overall market grew at 2.3% between Q1/04 and Q1/05, but somehow Apple managed to grow by 45% – nearly 20 times the overall market growth. But I thought Apple were on their last legs and nothing would ever help their market share – at least that was what I read from such noted pundits as Rob Enderle and Paul Thurrott.
And – even worse – I’ve discovered that Apple grew nearly four times faster than the market globally.
Quite frankly, I’m going to have to reconsider whether Rob and Paul are the kind of people that are qualified to give advice on anything more complicated than how to walk and chew gum simultaneously.
In all honesty, how do these people not get called on their complete cluelessness.
3.7% marketshare. Nice. And this is just the 1st quarter. I’d expect Apple to hit the 5% this year easily.
Paul Thurrott is the result of inbreeding
So let us buy low and sell high.
Nice to see Acer doing well. They have always given the most bang for buck in wintels.
jjr: “sell high.”
it is high, that´s why we sold.
Wonder how these numbers would look with the X-Serves included (presuming that, because they’re not x86 servers, they aren’t). Or how Dell and H-P would look if x86 servers were removed from the equation.
This helps put all those “market share” comments in perspective. When two companies have almost half the market and then the third is around 5%, having 3% or so isn’t so bad.
Bit like finishing second in a race. Don’t beat yourself up because there’s someone in front of you, rejoice because there are still lots behind…
WTF??
From the article:
“Apple shipped 1,070,000 Macintosh units worldwide in the first quarter quarter of 2005”
OK that’s great, but why does the second table show Apple shipping only 571,000 units? If Apple did indeed sell 1.07 million, their worldwide market share should be 7%!!
So what if Gartner’s results are “preliminary”. I’ll side with Apple’s 8-K filing numbers instead. Go Apple!
JJ,
The second table are the United States figures.
We shouldn’t get carried away because of one quarter, but it’s a promising trend and hopefully Apple can maintain the momentum. Going up is always better than going down!
I’d like to see Apple grow to 10% worldwide over the next few years, and then hold its own, maybe growing another percentage point (or part thereof) each year. I can dream …
I’d also like to see IBM selling servers runing Tiger Server.
This looks great!
Four more companies to beat…
Im just questioning the “x86” servers thing? What wrong with Power Servers? Hell or SPARC or whatever?
If all these numbers are mirrored next year (with Apple large gains and Gateway large losses) Apple should be #3 in 2006, not bad for a dying company
Anybody here knows how much is the percentage of apple and pc users in US?
Does anybody here knows how much is the percentage of apple and pc users in US?