| |   |  Apple's 3rd calendar quarter of 2014 computer sales, in context
  Figures are for worldwide computer sales (in thousands):
 Q3 2014                   Q3 2014    Market   Q3 2013    Market   ShpGrowth  ShrGrowth Rank     Vendor           Shipments  Share    Shipments  Share    2014/2013  2014/2013 -------  ---------------  ---------  -------  ---------  -------  ---------  --------- 1        Lenovo            15,707     20.00%   14,130     17.68%    11.16%     13.12%   2        Hewlett-Packard   14,729     18.76%   14,016     17.54%     5.09%      6.94% 3        Dell              10,442     13.30%    9,517     11.91%     9.72%     11.66% 4        Acer Group         6,632      8.45%    5,952      7.45%    11.42%     13.39% 5        Apple              5,520      7.03%    4,574      5.72%    20.68%     22.81%          All Vendors       78,519    100.0%    79,905    100.0%     -1.73%    Notes:  1. Figures for Apple are actual unit shipments for the periods, obtained from  investor.apple.com 2. Figures for all other manufacturers are "preliminary estimates" from  IDC (8 Oct 2014)
  Also note shipment and share growth compared to numbers for the same quarter that I posted here three years ago; Lenovo and Apple's shipments are up, while every other leading PC maker is down, some fairly significantly, and the industry as a whole is down even more (91.8M to 78.5M). |  
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