“Apple’s [Mac] shipment performance will beat the industry’s average in 2015 as it did in 2014, and total shipments of its Mac-series notebooks and desktops are likely to grow 10-15% on year to 20-23 million units in 2015, from 19.59 million units shipped a year earlier, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers,” Aaron Lee and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes.
“Apple’s [Mac] shipments for the fourth quarter of 2014 and for all of 2014 were up 14.09% and 14.43%, respectively, from a year earlier,” Lee and Shen report. “Global PC shipments were down 2.4% and 2.1%, respectively, during the same periods.”
Lee and Shen report, “Compared to an estimated 10-15% shipment growth for Apple’s [Macs] in 2015, global PC shipments are expected to drop 3.3% in the year, according to Digitimes Research.”
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