Tag archive: IDC

Market research firm IDC has released new figures for the sales of “media tablets” worldwide during the third quarter of 2011: where IDC had forecast shipments of 19.2 million units, only 18.1 million got out the door, meaning IDC's forecast was off by almost six percent. Nonetheless, the tablet market showed strong year-on-year growth, up more than 264 percent from the same quarter last year. Of course, the winner for the… Read More

We haven't yet seen a beta version of Windows 8, but analysts are already claiming it is doomed. Analysts from IDC, Gartner, and Forrester are predicting that the new OS will face an uphill battle in the PC and tablet markets for a number of reasons, but none of those reasons seem particularly relevant to the OS itself or the experience of using it. Microsoft has released an extremely limited Developer Preview of Windows 8, but the OS is… Read More

The number of people accessing the Internet from smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices will surpass the number of users connecting from a home or office computer by 2015, according to a new study by market analyst firm IDC.  According to their predictions, smartphones will begin to replace standard-feature phones at an increasingly rapid rate in the coming years, and the tablet sales are expected to “explode,” the company… Read More

Google's Android mobile operating system continued to gain users during April, May, and June, jumping from 34.7 percent market share in March of this year to 40.1 percent at the end of June, according to a survey of 30,000 mobile subscribers by comScore. This makes Android the most popular OS in the United States. Apple followed Google's lead with 26.6 percent of US smartphone users, a jump of 1.1 percent. Blackberry maker Research… Read More

Apple has surpassed Acer and Toshiba to become the third largest PC retailer in the US, reports Mashable. According to numbers from market research firm Gartner, that puts the Mac maker just behind Hewlett Packard and Dell. During the second quarter of 2011, sales of Apple computers grew 8.5 percent year-over-year to give the company a 10.7 percent market share, reports Gartner. That compares to the Cupertino, California-based company's… Read More

Market analysis firm IDC pas published its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker data for the first quarter of 2011, and the results show consumers are jumping on the smartphone bandwagon like never before. According to IDC, worldwide sales of smartphones reached 99.6 million units during the first quarter of the year, a 79.7 percent increase over the 55.4 million units shipped in the same quarter a year ago. The reasons? Consumer demand,… Read More

For the last few years Finland's Nokia has been roundly criticized for failing to respond to the Apple iPhone and the explosion of consumer demand for smartphones, but the company doesn't seem to be having much trouble holding on to its core strengths. According to new figures from IDC, Nokia remains far and away the largest manufacturer of mobile phones on the planet, commanding some 29.2 percent of the global market during the… Read More

A new report from research firm IDC shows that worldwide PC sales are down 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2011. This marks the first drop in sales since the world economy tanked in 2008. In the US, the numbers were even more depressing for PC manufacturers, with sales falling a full 10 percent — a reversal from 2010, which saw “strong gains” for most of the year, says IDC. IDC explains that the drop in sales is due to a wide… Read More

Android’s getting a lot of attention for being forecast as becoming the OS for over half of all smartphones by 2012, but the real story in the report is that Gartner thinks Windows Windows Phone 7 will overtake iOS by 2015 and claim the number two spot. Despite the skeptical reception the Nokia-Microsoft merger received, its long-term payoff will help drive Windows Phone 7 to a 19.5-percent market share come 2015. Speculation from the report… Read More

Despite the mess it made of the Windows Phone 7 update, there is some good news for Microsoft on the horizon. The International Data Corporation (IDC) announced today that it believes the Windows Phone 7 could become the second most popular mobile OS worldwide by 2015, second only to Android. Seem like a bold prediction? That’s because it is. Microsoft still has a lot of balls up in the air with Windows Phone 7: The Nokia merger is still… Read More

Market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) announced today a study which predicts significant increases in the smartphone market in 2011, and foresees Google's Android mobile operating system leading the smartphone pack through 2015. According to IDC's forecast, the number of smartphones used by consumers will balloon by 49.2 percent this year as mobile phone users ditch their “dumb” cell phones for more… Read More

Industry analysis firms IDC and Gartner have released their market summaries for U.S. and worldwide PC sales during the fourth quarter of 2010. As always, the two analyses don't match on every detail, but the broad strokes are consistent: the worldwide PC market saw modest growth during the fourth quarter of last year, and Apple and Toshiba in particular rung up strong sales in the U.S. market. However, the news wasn't all rosy for… Read More

In a conference call earlier in the month, Steve Jobs said it first: Apple has overtaken RIM in the mobile phone market. Jobs now has the numbers to back his boasts up. According to an IDC report based on the year's third quarter figures, Apple can now safely claim to be the world’s fourth largest mobile phone vendor. BlackBerry maker RIM now ranks fifth behind Apple. Rounding out the top five are companies LG Electronics, Samsung, and… Read More

A new survey from market analysis firm IDC finds that U.S. consumers, overall, spend more money on accessories for their PCs than they do on PCs themselves. IDC's foruth annual Beyond-the-Box survey found that in 2009, consumers spend $1.05 on PC accessories and peripherals for every $1 they spend on PCs themselves. The findings highlight not only the diminishing costs of mainstream PCs, but how large the market is for add-ons,… Read More

New figures from market research firm IDC show that Apple's shipments of iPhones were up almost 132 percent worldwide during the first quarter of 2010 compared to the year before. But while Apple might get most of the attention in the world of smartphones, Finland's Nokia is still the top handset maker on the planet…and it's way out in front of either Apple or RIM. And IDC is forecasting will be a banner year for… Read More