Apple takes #3 spot for portables?

By on Aug 2, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Business August 2, 2010

According to Deutsche Bank in a note sent out to clients, Apple’s combined iPad and MacBook / MacBook Pro market share puts them right ahead Asus, Toshiba, Dell, and Lenovo globally. Obviously you have to be willing to classify iPad tablet devices in the category as laptops and notebooks, but it isn’t exactly far-fetched. Especially when customers are buying iPads over a new netbook or in some cases laptops. The jump to the #3 spot (again, if you classify iPads as portables) pulls Apple up from the #7 slot globally, and it doesn’t look like Apple’s piece of the pie will be sliding any time soon. “Retail checks suggest this share shift continues in July.” The only two companies in front of Apple in this non-standard market share survey? Acer and Hewlett Packard. Let’s see what a Retina display-equipped, FaceTime-toting new iPad will do the market then, shall we?

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  • Don

    When I first got my iPod Touch (1st Gen) I reduced the amount of time I used my desktop and laptop. I recently got an Android phone and now hardly ever use my laptop or desktop.

    So yeah, I think an iPad can go into the netbook/laptop category. I still won’t get one though.

    The day I can start doing development on a tablet will be a good day.

  • Perspective

    It doesn’t help those other manufacturers that Apple makes more on each iPad than they do on each net book. Add to this the considerable amount of profit on each MacBook, and you have two of the reasons Apple’s financials are so spectacular.

  • TONY

    This shit looks photoshopped. Does everything have to be about Apple today?

    • bringit

      An apple a day…

    • jarrett

      @ TONY,

      These other companies only need to do something that is interesting from the world’s point of view. If Apple can do it surely these other companies can do it.

    • Apples

      If i wanted to, i could make a chart just like this, but instead of having apple at #3 it would be in #1 !

  • taypotts

    What a shock, BGR posting something about Apple. This is something that is going to hold you guys back in the long run!

    • jarrett

      @ taypotts,

      I don’t see it holding BGR back if the people hating the Apple stories keeping reading and posting about how they hate the Apple stories.
      Quit reading the Apple stories if you don’t like them. Or, start your own blog and post things non-Apple. The simplicity in solving your issue is striking.

      • wanderer

        @taypotts, jarrett’s right on that one. Quit reading apple post and just go straight to posts that are relevant to you. Unfortunately, the hater’s favorite pastime is trolling on every apple posting and that is probably one of the reasons on why BGR has all this apple related articles. Trolls+fans= more buzz/comments and is good for his blogsite.

    • Hamranhansenhansen

      Your Apple hating will hold you back today. TIRED.

      You see all the other lines on that chart are going down? The Apple line is going up. That is why things are being written about Apple.

  • Android

    If this graph is going to be fair, they need to include all the tablets from the other companies and see where things stand. Apple won’t even be close.

    • jarrett

      @ Android,

      If you are talking about those convertible laptops they are included because they are notebooks.

  • Brad

    Bring on the Retina Display- do more reading on the phone than I do on the iPad bc the display is that much sharper.

  • Firefight16

    The iphone does not have a retina display!

    http://m.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/iphone-4-retina-2/

    • Brad

      Like that article states, it may not technically be a Retina Limited display but it’s a fabulous display. Better than any of their others…..or anybody else’s to this point anyway.

  • blkrabb1t

    Out of curiosity, why do you still use the boy genius alias?

    And to keep with the topic, apple made a good call when they said that they won’t make netbooks. The netbook market its essentially getting replaced with ultra-portables, and tablets.

  • http://www.matthewdlyons.com matthewdlyons

    I guess it’s fair to toss iPads into the mix since they are Apple’s version of (alternative to) a netbook.

  • http://www.webhostinglogic.com Frank Adams

    If Apple wants to be number one on number of units sold globally, they should lower the price of their products. Anyway, they had shown they can sell defective products and get away with it by giving temporary solution.

    • Hamranhansenhansen

      They don’t want to be #1 in terms of units sold globally. They want to make the best products. Nokia is #1 in terms of units sold globally in mobile yet they are universally acknowledged not to make the best product, and they are not even profitable.

      Apple makes the best products and takes over 50% of the profits in all of their markets. All of their competitors share a minority of the profits. So Apple doesn’t need to change a damn thing.

      iPhone 4 is not defective. Defective products don’t pass testing on over 100 carriers, they don’t have the lowest return rate in the industry, they don’t have the lowest support calls in the industry, they don’t the the highest customer satisfaction rating in the industry. Use your head.

  • Frank

    QUALITY!! An added feature is they’re built to last and hold some value – unlike a brand I will not name other than to say, it’s less than a year old – been in for warrantee work twice – still has issues and will probably fall apart sometime in the near future – I have an old MacBook – still runs strong – never a problem and I think I could stil get a few hundred for it.

  • Matt

    From Websters:
    personal computer
    Function: noun
    Date: 1976
    : a general-purpose computer equipped with a microprocessor and designed to run especially commercial software (as a word processor or Internet browser) for an individual user

    Yep, the iPad is a personal computer.

    • T Man

      In that case, we should include smartphones too, since they fit that definition. Since the iPad runs a smartphone OS, then it should be lumped in with all other smartphones, and therefore not a part of this list.

      • Matt

        I am OK with including smart phones with computers. I would even include the iPod Touch too.

    • Al

      By that definition every smartphone is a computer as well (which they are). However for this chart, I don’t think iPad should apply since it pretty much runs the same OS as my iPhone. As much as I like the OS on my phone I would hate it if it were the only OS on my computer (desktop or laptop) OS.

    • Hamranhansenhansen

      Historically, though, if it doesn’t run Windows, it’s not considered a personal computer by the 99% of the PC industry that has its head up Microsoft’s butt.

  • wanderer

    @Android, I didn’t even know there are other tablets released already. I keep hearing and reading this and that manufacturer making android tablets but have yet to actually see one in use by the consumers. I remember all the naysayers about the iPad not having a market and not even touching the net book market. Now, all I hear are companies making tablets and how the netbooks will go extinct in the long run. Well, maybe you can count sales of China’s knockoff of the iPad called iped that runs supposedly on android.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Fastwalking

    Interesting how every other line in that chart is slanted down.

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