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Lenovo is global PC leader

by on07 August 2015


Tablets dying

Beancounters at Canalys have added up all their numbers and divided by their shoe size to name Lenovo the biggest PC leader.

The figures, which include sales of desktops, notebooks and tablets, showed that Lenovo shipped just short of 16 million PCs in the second quarter of 2015.

Although it is good to be on top, Canalys points out that this is a 5.6 percent year-on-year decline, giving it a 15 percent share of the global market.

Lenovo controls almost 30 percent of the Chinese PC market and is steadily building its share in the US.

Apple is number two because the figures include the Tablet market and Jobs' Mob ships a fair number of them. However the fact that the Tablet market is drying up and Apple's PC sales are still tiny, means that it will not appear on Canalys's rankings for long.

Canalys' research reveals that the overall worldwide PC market fell 12 percent annually to 109.2 million units, with double-digit percentage declines affecting desktop, notebook and tablet shipments.

HP and Dell also saw their share of the market slip during the second quarter, the analyst firm noted, as did Samsung as "a result of slowing tablet sales and the scaling back of its participation in the notebook market".

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