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Tag: IDC

Estimates vs. actual sales: Contrary to Gartner, IDC claims U.S. Mac sales slump in Q312

Friday, July 13, 2012 11:32 amFriday, July 13, 201217 Comments

According to IDC, Apple sold fewer Macs in the U.S. during the second quarter…

IDC’s Ma: Apple iPad has ‘insurmountable’ lead in tablet market

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 2:16 pmTuesday, July 10, 20129 Comments

Bryan Ma, associate vice president at research firm IDC…

Apple’s revolutionary iPad widens lead as tablet sales surge

Friday, June 15, 2012 12:06 pm17 Comments

The global market for tablet computers is growing faster than expected…

Nobody has any clue what smartphone market share will be in 2016

Friday, June 8, 2012 6:02 pmFriday, June 8, 201212 Comments

Research firm IDC has released its latest estimates of current market share…

IDC: Windows Phone to surpass Apple’s iOS by 2016

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 11:42 amTuesday, December 2, 201449 Comments

The worldwide mobile phone market is forecast to grow slightly more…

IDC: Apple makes big gains in tablet market, Android slumps

Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:16 pm25 Comments

A steep drop in shipments of Android-based tablets…

Apple surges to #2 position in latest IDC Health Insights Life Sciences Survey; a 220% increase since 2009

Monday, April 2, 2012 12:01 pmMonday, April 2, 20121 Comment

The most notable improvement in hardware and software came from Apple, moving into second place for each category the first time…

Apple’s iOS widens lead in app developer survey; Android sees waning interest due to fragmentation

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:23 am4 Comments

iOS continues to reign at number one in developer interest levels…

IDC’s latest iPad forecasts are too low

Friday, March 16, 2012 12:38 pmFriday, June 15, 20128 Comments

The recent 2012 WW forecast for tablets from IDC which forecasts sales of 106MM units…

IDC: Android tablets will overtake Apple’s iPad in worldwide market share by 2015

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:42 pmWednesday, March 14, 201255 Comments

Worldwide media tablet shipments into sales channels rose by 56.1% on a sequential basis…

Apple iPhone becomes #1 selling cellphone – of any kind – in Japan

Friday, March 9, 2012 9:22 am29 Comments

Apple now has the top-selling cellphone of any kind in Japan…

IDC: Apple vaults into #3 spot of global mobile phone vendors

Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:33 am8 Comments

In North America, smartphones held the spotlight with the launch of the Apple iPhone 4S…

Apple Mac vs. Windows PC: ‘PC’ decline even worse than reported

Monday, January 16, 2012 6:43 pm47 Comments

PC growth vs. Apple is even worse than reported….

Check out this stunning snapshot of the computer market, with and without iPad

Friday, January 13, 2012 10:23 amFriday, January 13, 201243 Comments

If tablets are computers, Apple’s share of the global market now dwarfs its competitors…

Apple’s 20x faster future iPhone 5, iPad 3 graphics promise

Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:32 pmThursday, January 12, 201225 Comments

Imagine you were the company which invented the PC, revolutionized the smartphone and created the tablet industry…

Give iPad some credit for Apple’s brisk Macintosh sales

Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:00 pmThursday, January 12, 201212 Comments

Windows PC sales for the fourth quarter of 2011 proved disappointing…

Apple Mac, Windows PC killer

Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:57 pmThursday, January 12, 201232 Comments

If you want to make the PC market’s ugly number even uglier, back out Apple…

Samsung grabs smartphone lead over Apple in Australia

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:00 pmTuesday, December 20, 201122 Comments

Samsung has climbed to the No.1 position as a result of a strong push…

Apple’s revolutionary iPad leads as Q3 tablet shipments jump 264% YOY

Friday, December 16, 2011 11:07 am9 Comments

Worldwide media tablet shipments into sales channels rose by 23.9% on a sequential basis…

IDC: Q311 worldwide mobile phone market sees slower growth as smartphone purchases soften ahead of iPhone 4S

Friday, October 28, 2011 8:53 am5 Comments

The worldwide mobile phone market grew 12.8% year over year in the third quarter of 2011…

IDC: Apple iPad grabbed 68.3% worldwide market share in Q211

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:00 pmWednesday, September 14, 201128 Comments

Worldwide media tablet shipments rose by 88.9% on a sequential basis and 303.8% year over year…

IDC: More mobile Internet users than PC users in the U.S. by 2015

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:21 am4 Comments

By 2015, more U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs…

IDC: Apple now the world’s #1 smartphone vendor

Thursday, August 4, 2011 3:02 pmFriday, August 5, 20116 Comments

The worldwide mobile phone market grew 65.4% year over year…

Apple officially ousts Nokia as world’s largest smartphone vendor

Friday, July 29, 2011 12:29 pmFriday, July 29, 201115 Comments

Apple has ousted Nokia as the largest smartphone maker in the world…

IDC: Apple Mac took 10.7% share of U.S. PC market in Q211

Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:54 pmWednesday, July 13, 201122 Comments

Worldwide PC shipments increased 2.6% in the second quarter of 2011…

IDC: Apple becomes Australia’s number one mobile brand as Nokia plummets

Monday, June 27, 2011 10:55 am10 Comments

Apple has become the top mobile device vendor in Australia for the first time…

IDC: Windows Phone to surpass Apple’s iOS by 2015

Friday, June 10, 2011 10:20 amFriday, June 10, 201159 Comments

ICD thinks Microsoft’s Windows Phone will become the number 2 in smartphone operating systems in 2015…

IDC: ARM chips to own 13% of PC market by 2015

Friday, May 6, 2011 11:29 am10 Comments

ARM Holdings is on the radar screen of the personal computer world…

IDC: Apple closes in on Nokia; now #2 in worldwide smartphone market share

Friday, May 6, 2011 10:07 am6 Comments

The worldwide smartphone market grew 79.7% year over year in the first quarter of 2011…

IDC: Apple takes #1 spot from Nokia in Western European smartphone market

Friday, May 6, 2011 9:09 amFriday, May 6, 20114 Comments

The Western European mobile phone market grew 5% year-on-year to 45 million units…

IDC: Apple passes Acer in Q1 2011 U.S. market share

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 6:22 pm19 Comments

A myriad of factors contributed to the first contraction in the worldwide PC market…

How Microsoft’s Windows Phone ’07 can beat Apple’s iPhone in market share

Saturday, April 9, 2011 1:01 pmSaturday, April 9, 201189 Comments

IDC caused some chuckles to break out across the tech world when they predicted…

IDC: By 2015, both Android and Windows Phone will beat Apple’s iOS in smartphone market share

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:50 amTuesday, March 29, 201152 Comments

The worldwide smartphone market is expected to grow 49.2% in 2011…

IDC: Apple dominated tablet market with 83% share in 2010, to keep it in 2011

Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:47 pmThursday, March 10, 20118 Comments

Apple is building on its strong 2010 first-generation iPad launch with the iPad 2…

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