iPad lifts Apple to PC client pinnacle, says Canalys
Apple has soared past HP to become worldwide client PC vendor leader for the final quarter of 2011, according to the latest sector figures from Canalys.
After selling 15 million iPads and 5 million Mac desktops and notebooks, the Reading-based channel-watchers calculated that Cupertino now accounts for 17% of the total 120 million client PCs shipped globally during the last three months of the year, a figure that was itself up 16%.
Tablet form factors actually accounted for 22% of total shipments during Q4, said Canalys, with sales of competing products such as Amazon's Kindle Fire helping boost global volumes, although not enough for Amazon to trouble the big-hitters.
The impact of the tablet was seen most clearly in the fact that had Canalys not taken their numbers into consideration, both the EMEA and North American markets would actually have declined.
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