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Apple's U.S. PC Market Share Flat, Dell's Sinks
Silicon Alley Insider — ... As expected, a slow quarter for PC sales: The worldwide market fell 6.5% year-over-year to 67 million units in Q1, according to market research giant Gartner. (A year ago, it grew 12% year-over-year over Q1 '07.) The U.S. market fared better, with roughly flat shipments in Q1. ...

Gartner: Apple's U.S. market share slips in Q1 2009
The Apple Core — April 16th, 2009 Gartner: Apple's U.S. market share slips in Q1 2009 Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 9:17 am Categories: Apple Tags: U.S. , Shipment , Gartner Inc. , Apple Inc. , Desktops , Hardware , Jason D. O'Grady A new report released by Gartner says that worldwide PC shipments totaled 67.2 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a decline of 6.5 percent. We are seeing some evidence of channel inventory restocking, particularly in the U.S.,” said George Shiffler, research director at Gartner. “This restocking should not be interpreted as a recovery ...

Apple market share drops slightly in the past year
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Odds and ends, Apple Financial Don't look now, but Apple's slow market share incline may have just turned into a slow decline. Not only does a new report by research and advisory company Gartner, Inc say that Apple's market share in the ...

Why Apple’s shares rose as its market share shrank
MacBytes.com — Apple shares 4/16/09 On Wednesday, Gartner Research reported that Apple’s ( AAPL ) share of the U.S. computer market, which topped 9% in calendar Q3 last year, dropped to 7.4% in Q1 2009 — putting it in fourth place behind HP ( HPQ ), Dell ( DELL ) and Acer. The next day, Apple’s share price rose nearly 2% to finish Thursday at $121.45, its highest close in six months. Why the disconnect? Chalk it up to the ASPs. As Gartner’s Mikako Kitagawa notes, sales for Apple’s competitors are being driven by the explosion of interest in low-cost netbooks — not just among penny-pinching consumers, ...

Dell To Buy Acer?
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Why? Because the PC market could afford consolidation, and because Acer is strong in overseas notebook sales, where Dell is weaker. One thing we'd add: Acer is also riding the netbook wave, which helped it grow Q1 shipments 27% year-over-year to a 13% global market share, according to Gartner. ...

Dell To Buy Acer For Overseas, Netbook Push?
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Why? Because the PC market could afford consolidation, and because Acer is strong in overseas notebook sales, where Dell is weaker. One thing we'd add: Acer is also riding the netbook wave, which helped it grow Q1 shipments 27% year-over-year to a 13% global market share, according to Gartner. ...

Opinion: Apple has squandered the gift that was Vista
Macworld — by Michael Scalisi , PC World Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the BizFeed blog at PCWorld.com . While it’s true that Apple has significantly grown its share of the desktop operating system market since the release of Windows Vista in November of 2006, the company’s market share remains below 10 percent, and it actually dropped in the first quarter of 2009, according to Gartner’s Worldwide PC Shipment report . To most observers, it’s fairly clear that Vista’s failings gave people a reason to take a fresh look at the Mac. And in its own right, OS X has become a ...