Analytics company Strategy Analytics has released new statistics on laptop sales around the world. In the third quarter of 2020, HP and Lenovo sold the most laptops, followed by Dell, Apple and Acer.
As for MacBook sales, they have increased 39% in just one year. Thus, Apple has a market share of 9.7% in this category, while this was 9.3% now a year ago.
In the third quarter of 2020, a total of 62.2 million laptops were sold in total, which represents an increase of 34% compared to the same period in 2019. These are the sales during the third quarter of 2020 according to Strategy Analytics :
- HP: 14.7 million (23.6%)
- Lenovo: 14.6 million (23.6%)
- Dell: 8.5 million (13.7%)
- Apple: 6.0 million (9.7%)
- Acer: 4.9 million (7.9%)
Other manufacturers managed to sell 13.4 million laptops during this period, which corresponds to 21.6%. It is possible to think that the coronavirus pandemic has impacted on laptop sales, as more people work from home.
Chirag Upadhyay, Senior Analyst, said: “Supplies will continue to be a concern as demand is believed to remain high with the increase in COVID infections around the world during this difficult winter for the Northern Hemisphere. With the pandemic still present across the globe, consumers have started to do their Christmas shopping to prepare for the new “normal” of working and studying from home. “
Apple’s financial results for the last quarter of fiscal 2020 (ending September 30) showed better results than expected for that quarter and the year, despite the pandemic, the impending global recession and the lack of a new iPhone. at those moments.
Original article published in MacWorld Sweden.
