Canalys: Apple Not Among Top-Five PC Vendors in June Quarter

14 JULY 2022 - The confusion and contradiction around Mac shipments continues. Earlier this week I told you of conflicting reports from market trackers IDC and Gartner. For the June-quarter, IDC had Apple shipping 4.8-million Macs, down over 22% from the same quarter a year earlier. Gartner, meanwhile, had the Cupertino-company shipping 6.4-million Macs, an increase of just over 9%. Now, a piece from Apple 3.0 has market tracker Canalys failing to mention the Mac at all, as far as the June-quarter is concerned.

“Global PC shipments [were] down 15% in Q2 2022,” according to a Canalys report. The way that firm sees it, the problem last quarter was supply. Too few computers to go around, thanks to production disruptions due the huge number of COVID lockdowns in China. Looking ahead, the firm anticipates a problem with demand - at least from the consumer side.

Conspicuous in its absence from the note is Apple. Putting together its top-five computer vendors (both desktop and laptop) for the June-quarter, Apple’s not in it. Number five on the Canalys list was ASUS with estimated shipments of 4.66-million units. That means Canalys thinks Mac sales fell under that relatively low bar. Again though, that’s the same quarter that IDC pegged at 4.8-million Macs and Gartner pegged at 6.4-million.

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