Chart: HP leads the worldwide PC market for the 1Q2011 .
"Canalys announced in April 28th, 2011, that the PC market grew 7% in Q1 2011, as the pad market, led by Apple's iPad, continued to bolster growth."
That's how Canalys, the first research firm to count tablets as PCs, began its report on how the market shaped up in the first calendar quarter of 2011.
The chart includes all desktops, netbooks, notebooks and pads.
HP leads the PC market share for the 1Q2011 with a 16,6% , followed by Acer with 12,8%, Dell 11,3% , Apple 9,5%, and Lenovo 9,2% .
Thanks to the iPad, Apple jumped into third place in worldwide PC shipments in Canalys' Christmas quarter report, behind only HP and Acer. In Thursday's report, Dell outsold Apple by 1.5 million units, pushing Apple into fourth place. Apple might have retained its position if it could have manufactured iPad 2s fast enough to meet demand.
Total tablet shipments for the quarter reached 6.4 million units worldwide, according to Canalys, with the iPad accounting for 74% of those units.
"Taking into consideration the iPad's 'halo effect' on the company's other products, Apple has grown considerably in most markets worldwide," said Canalys analyst Tim Coulling. "As the iPad 2 and its competitors continue to roll out, we expect pad sales to propel PC market growth for the rest of the year."
We think Canalys measure the PC market that way , because the pads (tablets) are in some way cannibalizing the netbooks and notebooks sales.
However the story doesn´t end there for the year 2011. Acer just launched the Iconia tablets in some markets and HP is about to launch the webOS TouchPad this summer.
Would be interesting to know , how these figures changed at the end of the current year.
Source: Canalys
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