Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Market Share Numbers For The First Quarter of 2003
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 02:00 PM
http://news.com.com/2100-1041-998047.html?tag=fd_top
Not a lot of details here but I am sure they will be forthcoming over the next few days.
• Palm still #1 with 36% of the market. 36% - isn't that about half of what it was in 1999?
• HP regained the #2 slot with 18% of the market. The new 1910 is credited with lifting HP up.
• Sony fell back to #3 with 16% of the market.
• Dell popped into existance in the #4 slot with 6.5% of the market.
• Toshiba is at #5 with 3.6%
• Handspring is at #7 with 2.9%. No clue who #6 is.
Update: PCWorld has some updated information with new numbers that allowed me to put this table together.
"Other" is basically a plug at the bottom since I only knew the top 4 OEM volumes and the totals, so Toshiba, Handspring, Handera, Casio and others are in there. All of the reports say the decline is 21.3% too, but no matter what calculator you use, going from 3.16M to 2.45M units is 22.5% decline no matter how you slice it, so somewhere the numbers in these reports are a bit off.
Bottom line is the market was down over 20% in volume. HP declined just 7% in volume by comparison and because of larger declines by competitors, it allowed HP to snag another 3% of market share. Dell's changes don't make any sense because they were non-existant last year, but they sold 159,000 units in the first quarter. Very impressive for basically one model and no retail presence. :way to go:
Not a lot of details here but I am sure they will be forthcoming over the next few days.
• Palm still #1 with 36% of the market. 36% - isn't that about half of what it was in 1999?
• HP regained the #2 slot with 18% of the market. The new 1910 is credited with lifting HP up.
• Sony fell back to #3 with 16% of the market.
• Dell popped into existance in the #4 slot with 6.5% of the market.
• Toshiba is at #5 with 3.6%
• Handspring is at #7 with 2.9%. No clue who #6 is.
Update: PCWorld has some updated information with new numbers that allowed me to put this table together.
"Other" is basically a plug at the bottom since I only knew the top 4 OEM volumes and the totals, so Toshiba, Handspring, Handera, Casio and others are in there. All of the reports say the decline is 21.3% too, but no matter what calculator you use, going from 3.16M to 2.45M units is 22.5% decline no matter how you slice it, so somewhere the numbers in these reports are a bit off.
Bottom line is the market was down over 20% in volume. HP declined just 7% in volume by comparison and because of larger declines by competitors, it allowed HP to snag another 3% of market share. Dell's changes don't make any sense because they were non-existant last year, but they sold 159,000 units in the first quarter. Very impressive for basically one model and no retail presence. :way to go:
