Year: 2010

According to the latest results from the Gartner research group, Apple has 8% of the US computer market for the first quarter of 2010. That’s up 34% from the 7.2% of the same period a year ago.

That places Apple fifth among US computer vendors. Ahead of it, with first quarter 2010 market share percentages, are HP (25%), Dell (23.4%), Acer (15.6%) and Toshiba (8.6%). Worldwide, Apple still doesn’t rank in the top five, which are: HP (18.2%), Acer (14.2%), Dell (12.1%), ASUS (5.5%) and Toshiba (5.5%). The Mac has, by most estimates, a 5% global market share.

Okay, Gartner says Apple’s US market share has grown. IDC says it’s shrunk for the first quarter of 2010. As the old joke says, “99% of all statistics are made up,” so I guess you can pick which one you like best.

According to IDC, Apple had 6.4% of the US market share in quarter one of 2010, compared to 7% in the same time period a year ago. The research group says Apple sold 1,130,000 Macs for 1Q 2010 compared to 1,043,000 in 1Q 2009.