Apple will officially release last quarter’s earnings results at the end of this month but analytics firm Canalys is out today with data on PC shipments for Q3. While the entire market saw shipment growth, Apple’s Mac lineup also saw a YoY gain, keeping its market share steady just under 8% of worldwide shipments.
The 2019 Q3 estimates from Canalys (Apple’s fiscal Q4) show overall PC shipments growing 4.7% year over year. That’s the best overall shipment result for the global PC market since 2012. Coming in first for market share was Lenovo with 24% of global PC shipments and over 7% YoY growth. HP followed Lenovo with 23% of the market and saw an even higher 8.5% growth in the quarter.
Apple landed in fourth for market share, capturing 7.6% of the worldwide shipments with its 1.5% YoY growth. Canalys notes the back to school season as helping Apple hit the improved sales. And Macs saw double the growth in the US that it did with overall sales.
As for Europe, PC growth was more muted and Apple was the only top-five company to not see growth.
The biggest factor for PC growth was the end of support for Windows 7 and specifically the market of Japan as it prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
