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The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating affects across the globe, upending the everyday lives of nearly everyone, while at the same time resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands. Because of how COVID-19 is spread, people that can work from home along with students participating in virtual learning have resulted in a massive spike in PC sales. According to Canalys, overall PC shipments for the year 2020 hit 297 million units, which was a 11 percent increase compared to 2019. In fact, 2020 represented the biggest leap in full-year PC sales growth since 2010, and marked the highest number of unit shipments since 2014. More specifically, looking at data just for Q4 2020, we see that PC shipments...
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As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to linger, forcing more people to work and educate from home, the PC market is seeing a huge uptick in shipments. More precisely, the global PC market grew 12.7 percent from last year to reach 72.2 million units in the third quarter of 2020, marking the highest growth rate in the past 10 years. The record growth follows a rather weak recovery in the first quarter. But by the second quarter of this year, things began to pick up, and then exploded. Notebook shipments did particularly well, notching 64 million units, nearly matching the record high 64.6 million notebooks shipped in the first quarter of 2011. This is largely a result of COVID-19, with demand...
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Earlier this week we talked a bit about the Indian smartphone market where Apple and Samsung found stiff competition from OnePlus. OnePlus led the premium smartphone market overall for Q4 2018 in India, yet it didn't even turn up in the global figures. The numbers from market research firm Canalys are now out for the overall global smartphone market during 2018. Samsung was again at the top of the list for the entire year despite a 7.2% decline in sales. Canalys data shows that Samsung shipped 293.7 million handsets to own 21.2% of the global device market. That is a decline compared to the 2017 full-year numbers when Samsung shipped 316.6 million smartphones. The data seems to indicate...
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Market research firms have a tendency to separate traditional PC sales (desktops, laptops, and ultrathins) from tablets, but Canalys clumps them together, thereby giving us another angle to analyze the landscape. So, according to Canalys, the two categories combined to reach 123.7 million unit shipments worldwide in the first quarter of 2014, up only 5 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago. A major factor that resulted in the nominal jump is that growth in the tablet sector slowed to 21 percent. We've seen other reports suggesting that tablet demand is cooling off, as consumers are finding themselves content with their current slates and aren't seeing enough reason to upgrade. This...
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There's a mobile movement taking place, spurred by increasingly powerful smartphones and tablets, more efficient processor technology (Tegra's 4-Plus-1 design, for example), and thinner form factors. The result of this perfect storm of mobility is that by 2016, worldwide mobile device shipments will reach 2.6 billion units, according to the latest forecasts from Canalys. Canalys isn't just figuring smartphones and tablets, it's also including feature phones and notebook PCs. However, Canalys says tablets will be the fastest growing category with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 35 percent. After that, smartphones will experience the most growth with a CAGR of 18 percent, and will overtake...
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In a development that is truly notable yet shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, more smartphones (487.7 million) than PCs (414.6 million) shipped globally for the first time, according to a report by Canalys. Indeed, smartphones gained lots of ground, enjoying 62.7% annual growth from 2010 to 2011. The PC market is also growing, although not as quickly; it enjoyed a more modest 14.8% growth in the same time period. We know what you’re thinking: How do tablets factor into this? As it turns out, quite a bit. According to Canalys’ numbers, growth in the PC market is driven primarily by “pads”, which accounted for 15% of all PC sales and saw a ridiculous 274.2% growth...
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When it comes to Macs versus PCs, Apple versus Microsoft, and iOS versus Windows, haters gonna hate no matter which side you choose, if in fact you're not completely platform agnostic. There's nothing we can do about that. All we can do is observe and report the facts, and in this case, a market research firm is saying Apple is on track to become the world's largest PC vendor in 2012. Is that really a fact? It depends on how you view the numbers. Canalys said it expects Apple to overtake HP in the second half of next year, but that's only if you count tablet sales. If you do, well, Apple's full year PC shipments for 2011 are on pace to reach 415 million units, up 15 percent year-on-year, and...
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