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Market Trends - Stats

If You Add Tablets, PC Market is UP

04 May 2011 Marco Attard Market Trends - Stats
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If You Add Tablets, PC Market is UP

Whereas Gartner has divided out tablets (leaving PC sales down for the first time since Q3 2009), Canalys decides to leave tablets in and show WW PC sales up 7.7%, with shipments reaching 88.6m units.

Meanwhile WW PC shipments for Q1 2011 total 84.3m units-- a 1.1% Y-o-Y. That means tablets could reflect 9% of total PC sales.

HP still leads the WW market, with 16.6% share (down by -5.8% from Q1 2010). Following are Acer (12.8% market share and -6.5% Y-o-Y growth) and Dell (11.3% market share Continue reading...

VGA Declines as DisplayPort Grows

27 April 2011 Marco Attard Market Trends - Stats
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VGA Declines as DisplayPort Grows

78.9m PCs WW will carry DisplayPort in 2011, IHS iSuppli says-- with global 2011 shipments growing by 154.6% from 2010's 30.9m.

According to iSuppli DisplayPort is already going through rapid growth. Last year's expansion totalled 136.5%, while the analyst predicts a 137% increase for 2012, before 2013's 46% and 2014's 62% growth, with 400m DisplayPort-enabled devices shipping by 2014's end.

Pushing forward the momentum for DisplayPort is Apple, whose desktops and laptops carry the interface since Continue reading...

EMEA EReader Market to Match US?

20 April 2011 Marco Attard Market Trends - Stats
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EMEA EReader Market to Match US?

IDC reports EMEA ereader shippings total over 1.9m units in 2010, most of which in W. European markets-- just over 15% of the WW market.

However the analyst predicts EMEA sales will reach 9.6m units by 2015, growing by a total CAGR of 37.9% and roughly matching the US market's size.

Since their entering the market in 2007 ereaders grew much faster in the US than EMEA, mostly thanks to the Amazon Kindle's rapid uptake in that market.

The IDC attributes this growth to ereaders' combination of e-ink Continue reading...

Apple's Grip on the Tablet Market

13 April 2011 Marco Attard Market Trends - Stats
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Apple's Grip on the Tablet Market

Apple will continue owning the majority of the WW tablet market-- as it does nowadays-- at least up til through 2015, according to Gartner. 69% of tablets will carry iOS by 2011's end, and 47% of the market will in 2015.

Gartner says most other vendors competing against Apple fail to give customers really want-- apps, services and slick user experiences. Instead, such vendors prefer to concentrate on hardware features, just as they did when competing against iOS on smartphones.

The analyst forecasts Continue reading...

Cisco Remains WLAN Market Leader

13 April 2011 Marco Attard Market Trends - Stats
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Cisco Remains WLAN Market Leader

The WW WLAN market grows by 10% in 2010, reaching revenue totals of $4.4BN-- with growth of 9.1% and shipments increasing by 8.1% Q/Q in Q4 2010, according to In-Stat's WLAN market tracker.

Cisco remains the leading WLAN vander, with a 27% share of the market and increasing shipments by 8.1% in Q4 2010 when compared to Q3. Its total revenue for 2010 reaches $1.2BN (up by 31% from 2009).

Following in second place is Netgear, surpassing Technicolor with revenue for 2010 reaching $6.38m. The market Continue reading...

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