Although in the early stage of the development of smart phones, the market space of PC computers has been greatly squeezed, but after the mobile phone manufacturers entered the PC computer market, they finally reawakened the innovation ability of traditional PC computer manufacturers, and at the same time, more and more consumers re-accepted PC computers, although the entry of mobile phone manufacturers has a very important role in the PC computer market, but in the global mainstream PC market, traditional manufacturers are still the most recognized, in the data statistics agency - In Canalys' latest Q4 2021 report, Apple remains the only PC brand to start with smartphones.
However, in view of the fact that most users are still more recognized by Microsoft's Windows system in terms of desktop system, and the PC computer equipped with the Windows operating system has many options, covering multiple price segments of the market, so most consumers will still give priority to the computer brand equipped with the Windows system when choosing a PC computer, and Apple's PC computer is equipped with its own MacOS, want to get used to this system, it takes a certain amount of time to adapt, but everything has two sides, Most of the consumers who choose Apple computers are because of Apple's MacOS.
Compared with the mainstream PC brand, Apple's shipments in the PC computer market are not high, but as a unique brand, in the global PC market in the Q4 quarter of 2021, Apple can take 7.81 million units of shipments or very strong, the overall market share accounted for 8.5%, compared with the Q4 quarter of 2020 Shipments increased by 9%, market share also increased by 0.6%, in the 2021 annual market statistics, Apple computer shipments exceeded 28.95 million units, This is an increase of 28.3% over 2020.
In the head camp of the global PC market, Lenovo, HP and Dell are still the absolute kings, but in the market sales in the Q4 quarter of 2021, only Dell achieved 8.9% year-on-year sales growth, but at present Dell still ranks third in the world, but compared with the fourth place Apple, the lead is still very large, the shipment in the Q4 quarter of 2021 reached 17.195 million units, and the market share increased from 17.4% to 18.7%. Shipments for the full year 2021 increased from 50.273 million units to 59.3 million units. , an increase of 18%.
The first and second brands are still Lenovo and HP, but compared with the Q4 quarter of 2020 shipments and market share, both brands have declined, of which the first RankEd Lenovo in the Q4 2021 shipments reached 21.7 million units, compared with the Q4 quarter of 2020 shipments fell by 6.5%, the market share also decreased from 25.5% to 23.7%, in the annual market statistics, Lenovo's market share has a decline of 0.3%, However, the annual shipment volume achieved a large increase of 13.1%, exceeding 82.14 million units in 2021.
HP's changes are not small, the shipment volume in the Q4 quarter of 2021 was 18.645 million units, the market share was 20.3%, compared with the Q4 quarter of 2020, there was a 0.8% market share decline, while the market shipments also decreased by 3%, expanding to the market share of the whole year of 2021, HP also showed a 1% decline, but the shipment of PC computers increased by 9.5%, reaching 74.072 million units, and Lenovo has a gap of less than 10 million units.
In addition, in this data report, Acer has also entered the top five in the global market, but its overall shipment volume and market share can only be in the same gear as Apple, compared with the three brands in the head camp, the gap is still very large.