Apple’s Mac sales grew twice as fast as PCs in 2021, Canalys
Apple Silicon and remote working have really benefitted the Mac, the report hints.
Canalys hasn’t quite gone so far as to declare it but its most recent PC market report gives us a huge and shining hint that Apple may have enjoyed ‘the year of the Mac’ in 2021. Why is this? In part it is surely the resurgence in Macs in business, but here’s what you the analyst’s had to say:
Canalys data shows shining Macs
- Full year sales hit 341 million units, 15% up on last year and the largest total since 2012.
- Q4 PC sales exceeded 90 million for a second year
- Desktops, notebooks and workstation shipments climbed 1%
- Revenue was up 11% yoy
- Notebook sales climbed 16% while desktops increased 7%.
- Mac shipments grew twice as fast as PC shipments.
- Apple came fourth with Q4 growth of 9.0% and full-year growth of 28.3%, making it the best-performing vendor in the top five. Think about that.
- Apple is the fourth biggest vendor worldwide, with 8.5% share.
- Apple remains far behind third place Dell.
Business is going digital
“While 2021 was the year of digital transformation, 2022 will be the year of digital acceleration,” said Canalys Principal Analyst Rushabh Doshi.
“Demand for technology has boomed in the past two years, the effects of which continue to disrupt the supply chain, affecting not just availability of PCs, but also smartphones, automobiles and servers. As PC vendors navigate an ever more complicated situation, consumer spending patterns are shifting.
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Canalys data
“We will see revenue growth in the industry from spending on premium PCs, monitors, accessories and other technology products that enable us to work from anywhere, collaborate around the world and remain ultra-productive. The importance of faster, better, more resilient and more secure PCs has never been greater, and the industry is willing to innovate and push the boundaries to keep this momentum going.”
Canalys gives the following information
Back to the data:
- Lenovo took first place in the PC market in Q4 with total shipments of 21.7 million units, an annual decline of 6.5%. It was also the biggest-shipping vendor for full-year 2021, hitting a record 82.1 million units, a 13.1% increase on 2020.
- HP ranked second, with Q4 shipments of 18.7 million units helping it reach 74.1 million units in 2021, growth of 9.5% over 2020.
- Third-placed Dell posted stellar growth of 8.9% in Q4 to reach 17.2 million units and increased its market share by over 1%. Dell ended 2021 with total shipments of 59.3 million units for the year.
- Apple came fourth with Q4 growth of 9.0% and full-year growth of 28.3%, making it the best-performing vendor in the top five. It shipped 7.8 million units in Q4 and 29.0 million units in full-year 2021.
- Acer rounded out the top five for both Q4 and the full year, posting shipments of 6.6 million in Q4 and 24.4 million units in 2021.
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