Market | asymco: “In
terms of units Windows-based computers made up 78% of all PCs sold in Q1.
This was an increase from the 74% in the previous quarter but a decline from
90% a year ago.
OS X based computers
were about 3.7%, a decline in share both q/q and y/y,
The above chart
shows the composition of vendor volumes with tablet and traditional form factor
computers included:”
iOS computers (i.e
iPad) were 11% of the market, declining from 13% last quarter but increasing
from Q1 ’11′s 4.2% share. Apple reported that the iPad was not at supply/demand
balance and thus could have sold more units.
Amazon’s shipments
were about 5 million Amazon Fire tablets were sold since the product’s launch.
The third significant
tablet vendor was Samsung, which sold about 1.6 million tablets, down
sequentially but up y/y. Other Android tablets may have shipped another 5
million units.
Overall, Apple
remained the top vendor with 14.6% share, followed by HP with 14.1% and Lenovo
in third at 10.7%. Dell just barely managed to beat Acer with 9% vs. 8.9%