Apple captures 27% share of worldwide mobile PC shipments

[onehandle]

And while the desktop market is ever-shrinking, the mobile market is ever-expanding.

I haven't bought a desktop computer since the late 90s myself.

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The combined total of iPad and MacBook shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011 gave Apple a whopping 26.6 percent share of the mobile PC market, nearly tripling the share held by second-place HP.

Apple's market dominance was revealed on Thursday by NPD DisplaySearch, which tracks mobile PC shipments. They found that Apple shipped 18.7 million iPads, representing nearly 80 percent of the company's mobile PC shipments during the holiday quarter.

When Apple's record iPad sales were combined with its best-ever MacBook sales, Apple achieved shipments of 23.4 million units, good for a 26.6 percent share. That was well ahead of HP's 9.9 percent share from 8.7 million units.

Coming in third was Dell, which shipped 6.9 million mobile PCs and took a 7.9 percent share. Acer was in fourth with 6.8 million shipped for 7.7 percent, while Lenovo was fifth, shipping 6.3 million units for 7.2 percent.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/23/ipad_macbooks_combine_to_give_apple_27_share_of_all_mobile_pc_shipments.html

[orwell]

1. They should have a different category...

...for mobile devices such as pads or phones.

They are not the same animals as laptops or desktops.

Readers, pads and phones are essentially consumption devices.

Laptops and desktops are consumption and creation devices.

Of course this is a generalization.

As voice recognition becomes more powerful, this line will start to be erased.

[orwell]

3. I would submit...

...that very few use their mobile devices this way.

At the processor level, these devices pale in comparison to a modern pc or mac architecture, by 5 to 10 times in many cases.

A modern laptop or desktop is far faster than these mobile devices.