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<title>Apple retains third place in US PC sales, gains 5.4 percent</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/15/windows.8.fails.to.kickstart.pc.sales.in.q4.2012/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1301/pc-data-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Preliminary PC shipment data produced by Gartner shows that Apple has held on to the number three position in the US market in the fourth quarter of 2012. Although PC shipments declined in the US by 2.1 percent year over year dropping to 17.5 million units, Apple managed to boost its sales by 5.4 percent over its 2011 fourth quarter results. HP retained its number one position in the US, boosting ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>PC shipments continues decline in Q4, down 4.9 percent</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/14/apple.increases.us.based.shipments.year.on.year/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1344574513_pcboxes-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Shipments of personal computers have continued to decline, according to market analyst firm Gartner. Sales have declined in the fourth quarter in 2012 by 4.9-percent compared to the same period in 2011, with a combination of the weak global economy and the availability of cheap and accessible tablets reportedly to blame....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Gartner: mobile market shrinks ahead of next iPhone</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/14/new.research.shows.pent.up.iphone.demand.affected.total.sales/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1208/gartner-q212-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[New research by by Gartner indicates that the global smartphone market contracted by 2.3 percent last quarter against the same period last year. Gartner attributed the fall in sales to the highly anticipated launch of the first all-new iPhone design in two years. Also a factor, is the "challenging global environment" which is also expected to effect Apple's third quarter sales ahead of the new ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Western European PC market soft, Apple increases UK share</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1344574513_pcboxes-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Mirroring global trends, PC market analyst firm Gartner reports that PC shipments in western Europe declined 2.4 percent in the second quarter of 2012 over the same period in 2011. Mobile PC shipments grew four percent, while desktop workstation shipments declined 12.8 percent. The professional PC market declined 5.3 percent, with 0.4 percent growth in the consumer PC market....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple grows to 12 percent US share in worldwide PC slump</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/11/us.pc.sales.drop.5.10.percent.worldwide.down.01.percent/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1342043275_gartner-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[According to preliminary results from analysts at Gartner and IDC, worldwide PC shipments contracted by 0.1 percent, with the US driving the decrease. The latest report marks the seventh consecutive quarter of no or limited overall growth. HP tops the charts worldwide, but with a significant loss of marketshare from a year ago. Lenovo has scavenged from HP's loss, claiming the second-place spot in...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>IDC, Gartner: Apple over 10% of US PCs, worldwide PCs drag</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/11/idc.and.gartner.give.early.q1.2012.estimates/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/dellxps15z-macbookpro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Both Gartner and IDC provided early estimates of winter 2012 market share that showed Apple making big strides in the US.  The two gave the Mac a tentative share of 10 or 10.6 percent, in either case enough to put it in third place.  Both saw rapidly falling Acer and Toshiba below Apple in share....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Gartner: tablets to surge 98% in 2012, iPad to lead in 2016</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/10/gartner.sees.ipad.still.leading.in.four.years/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/ipad2012-review.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple will stay out in front of the tablet market for at least the next four years, Gartner predicted in a long-term estimate on Tuesday.  The analyst group saw sales for the entire tablet market for 2012 nearly doubling, up 98 percent to 118.9 million, with Apple still in the clear majority at 73 million.  While the gap would close, Apple would keep the largest piece of the market even until 2016...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Gartner: Samsung has 3X Apple's smartphone share in China</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/samsunggalaxysii-ad.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Gartner on Sunday revealed the extent to which Apple's share of China's smartphones trailed others.  Although Apple leads worldwide, it sat at 7.5 percent, or fifth place, in China's sphere.  Samsung, in the lead at 24.3 percent, had over three times as much share....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>iPhone cedes share in China to ZTE as Samsung ousts Nokia</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/17/iphone.dips.in.chinese.share.pre.4s.launch/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn.macnn.com/news/1202/iphone4s-china.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Region-specific Gartner data has shown that Apple was losing Chinese smartphone market share in the last few months before the local release of the iPhone 4S.  Its portion dropped from 10.4 percent in the summer to 7.5 percent in the fall.  The company mostly lost its fourth place position to local designer ZTE's 11 percent....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Gartner: Apple No 1 vendor in Q4, but faces likely slowdown</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/15/gartner.iphone.demand.to.stay.strong.but.taper/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/gartner_iphonegn_gallery.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Research analytics firm  Gartner  has released its Q4 report, which shows that Apple took a 24 percent share of the global smartphone market -- the largest share of any single smartphone maker. This was aided by pent-up demand following the extended 15-month period where the iPhone 4 was on sale resulting in Apple achieving a a 121.4 percent of year-over-year increase in iPhone sales over the Octo...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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