For Q3 2024, Apple noticed Mac gross sales drop considerably yr over yr, by far the worst determine for the highest 5 pc producers.
Following the 2024 second quarter the place it simply barely managed to extend Mac gross sales in comparison with the identical time in 2023, Apple’s Q3 has a seen a major drop. Quarter to quarter, Apple truly noticed an increase with having shipped 5.1 million Macs in Q3 in comparison with 2.32 million in Q2.
Nonetheless, based on Canalys, in Q3 2023, Apple had shipped 6.1 million Macs. Consequently, evaluating figures yr over yr, Apple was down 17.5% in Q3 2024.
That interprets right into a lack of market share as nicely. In Q3 2023, Apple had a 9.5% share of the PC market, however within the newest figures it is all the way down to 7.7%.
This places Apple on the backside of the highest 5 distributors worldwide. Lenovo got here prime with an annual progress of two.8% and shipments of roughly 16.5 million models.
HP was second on 0.4% progress and 13.6 million models shipped, whereas fourth-place Dell was the one different producer to see a decline. Its delivery of 9.8 million PCs was a yr over yr decline of 4%.
Whereas it bought fewer than the opposite PC makers, and solely a fraction greater than Apple, Asus elevated its progress by 15.8%. That meant 5.5 million computer systems bought, and a market share that went from 7.3% to eight.3% yr over yr.
Apple’s 17.5% decline comes regardless of the corporate not releasing any new Macs throughout Q3 in both 2023 or 2024. Because it did for This autumn 2023, it’s now anticipated to launch new fashions on the finish of October 2024.