IDC report has revealed that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s Mac sales has decreased sharply after the shipment of PC has dropped internationally in a third financial quarter. The smartphone makers has more concentrated on portable and consumer, but in this fiscal quarter the growth was in commercial, so the company has lost the chance to gain from the quarter by not focusing on those who had better performance in this quarter.
On the whole IDC has reported that international PC shipments were 81.6 million total units in the quarter. The report emerged on Wednesday also said, the smartphone manufacture device sale decreased 11% to 1.9 million as compared to third quarter 2012, the Mac maker is currently at No. 3 position in the U.S. following Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) and Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL). After close analysis it is reported that in the top five dealers of PC market in the U.S., together with Toshiba and Lenovo, the US smartphone giant was the only firm to declare a decreased in Mac shipments.
Loren Loverde, who is the analyst at IDC, has said PC retailers dig up a boost from higher commercial order that counterbalance constant weakness in the customer PC market. As The world number two smartphone maker has decreased approximately 8% from the same quarter last year. While the research firm, was expecting a decrease of approximately 10%.
Currently the leader in PC market, Lenovo, increase PC shipment 2% in year-o-year growth, at the same time as Dell and H-P both declared a fractional growth in sale of PC. In contrast, Asus and Acer Group have declared a decrease in the sale of PC over 34%.
The analyst also expects that the decline in PC market is still better than it was expected. But still the result is not that much impressive that it would be sufficient to support the prospects of PC market in 2013 and honestly, that related to future years as well. The PC market is falling due to change in market trend towards mobile devices, particularly smartphones and tablets. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares advanced 1.17% to $486.59 in last trading session.
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