Apple’s share of the laptop market dropped by a dramatic 24.3% in Q3, according to new data. It saw the company drop from 4th to 5th place in the rankings …
Apple’s market share fell from 10.4% in Q3 2017 to 7.9% in the same quarter this year. It lost fourth place to Asus, both behind HP, Lenovo and Dell.
TrendForce said that the fall took place at a time when the market as a whole was growing – although at a slower rate than expected.
Global notebook shipments for 3Q18 are estimated to increase slightly by 3.9% QoQ, reaching 42.68 million units. Compared with the previous forecast of 5~6% growth, this projection has been adjusted 2% downward due to the shortage of Intel CPU.
The company notes that Apple’s fall took place despite an upgrade to the MacBook Pro in July.
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