The company topped PC sales in the Q3, research shows

Nov 3, 2022 16:04 GMT  ·  By

The third quarter of the year witnessed a substantial decline in terms of PC sales, but this isn’t necessarily surprising given the boom the market has recorded back in 2020.

With the demand for new computers slowing down, it makes sales for sales to decline as well, and new data from Canalys reveals that worldwide PC shipments, including tablets, went down no more, no less than 13.5 percent in the third quarter of the year.

All companies but one saw their numbers going one, and it’s not hard to guess what company managed to defy this declining trend.

Canalys says Apple recorded 1.5 percent growth year-over-year, as it managed to sell 23.4 million devices in Q3, up from 23 million units in the same quarter a year ago. This means Apple is now the number one PC maker, as it controls a share of 22.2 percent.

Lenovo is now the runner-up due to a massive drop from the third quarter of 2021. Its sales dropped no more, no less than 20.6 percent, going down from 24.4 million units to 19.4 million units this year.

“In the total PC market (desktops, notebooks and tablets), Apple topped the table with 23.4 million units shipped worldwide, grabbing a 22% market share as the only major vendor to post year-on-year growth in Q3,” Canalys explains in the most recent research note.

“With 19.4 million units shipped and an 18% market share, Lenovo came in second, posting a 21% year-on-year decline. HP finished third, with a 28% drop in shipments to 12.7 million units and a two-percentage-point market share loss compared with Q3 2021. Fourth-placed Dell shipped 12 million units, undergoing a 21% decline, while fifth-placed Samsung posted shipments of 7.3 million units and a more modest decline of 13%.”