IT House May 5 news that Canalys' latest report shows the sales performance of PCs, tablets and Chromebooks in the first quarter of 2022. Although sales of PCs and tablets fell 3 percent to 118.1 million units compared to the first quarter of 2021. But shipments remain strong compared to before the arrival of COVID-19. From the first quarter of 2019, the three-year CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) is 12%. This excludes, of course, Chromebooks, which saw a sharp 60% year-over-year decline in global shipments in the first quarter of 2022.
Apple dominates global tablet sales, shipping 14.88 million units, down 2% year-over-year and 38.2% market share. Samsung ranked second with shipments of 7.86 million units and a market share of 20.4%. Amazon took the third place that previously belonged to Lenovo with 3.57 million units shipped. Because of the massive discounts on Amazon's Fire tablets, its tablet shipments increased by 3.3% year-on-year. Lenovo ranked fourth with shipments of about 3 million units, but shipments were down 20 percent from the first quarter of last year. Huawei took the fifth place with shipments of 1.68 million units, accounting for 4.4% of the market share.
In the first quarter of 2022, Chromebooks shipped 4.9 million units worldwide. Last year's shipments of Chromebooks were extremely high because many students bought cheap Chromebooks to use for remote online learning at home. In the first quarter of this year, the market was close to saturation, resulting in a sharp decline in Chromebook shipments. Canalys noted that North America accounted for 72 percent of global Chromebook shipments, while Chromebook shipments in the market fell 64 percent in the first quarter of 2022.
Despite a 62% drop in Chromebook shipments, Lenovo still successfully shipped 1.22 million Chromebooks worldwide and led the way with a 24.9% market share. Acer and Dell ranked second and third with market shares of 23.1% and 17.9%, respectively, with Acer shipping 1.13 million units and Dell shipping 876,000 units. HP's shipment decline was the most pronounced, down 82 percent from the first quarter of 2021, with 775,000 units snapping up a 15.8 percent share. ASUS shipped 460,000 units and had a market share of 9.5%. However, all Chromebook brands were in decline during the quarter. Acer fell 20.9 percent, Dell 12.8 percent, Asus 47.7 percent, and HP saw the worst decline at 82 percent.
Looking ahead, supply chain pressures will increase in the global tablet and PC markets due to the War between Russia and Ukraine and China's COVID-19-related lockdown. Demand for Chromebooks in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to rise, and educational deployments in the region are expected to begin catering to price-sensitive users. These growing education markets are finalizing digital plans that will drive more Chromebook sales. In addition, IT House learned that Indonesia has started an initiative to produce Chromebooks locally for domestic education and export.