Report: Apple’s MacBook Shipments Fall 21% in First Quarter
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shipped 3.21 million MacBook's in the first quarter of the calendar year 2020, according to market research firm Canalys. This represented a decline of 21% year-over-year compared to the 4.07 million units shipped in the prior-year quarter.
The MacBook grossly underperformed the worldwide desktop, notebook, and workstation market in Q1, which experienced a decline of 8%. Global shipments fell to 53.68 million units from 58.34 million units in the above-mentioned period.
This meant Apple now has a share of 6% in the global PC market at the end of the first quarter of 2020, down from 7% in the prior-year period. China's Lenovo continued to lead the global PC market in terms of units shipped with a share of 23.9% followed by HP and Dell at 21.8% and 19.6%, respectively. Dell was, in fact, the only major player to experience a rise in shipments, which rose 1.1% to $10.5 million units.
Source Fool.com
