While Acer shipped 4.9 million units in Q1 2021 seeing a YoY growth of 94 percent as well. Lets look at some examples of market leaders in the digital space. Strategy Analytics says that Dell shipped 10 million units in the quarter gaining a modest 37 percent YoY growth, and Apple shipped 5.7 million units gaining a 94 percent YoY growth. Dell's market share was at 14.6 percent, Apple's at 8.4 percent, and Acer's at 7.2 percent in the quarter ending March 2021. Windows, Android, iOS, OS X and Linux are currently dominating the global OS market, across all platforms ( desktop, mobile, tablet, console). It shipped 15.4 million units in the quarter and saw YoY growth of 91 percent. The above graph represents the world’s most popular operating systems by market share, starting from January 2009 to the recently completed month.
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After Lenovo, HP was the second largest PC vendor with a 22.6 percent market share in Q1 2021.
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About a quarter of PC users have not upgraded to this version yet though, which means that the May 2020 update for Windows is still the second most popular. The report says the top five vendors in the PC segment were Lenovo, HP, Dell, Apple, and Acer. That honor currently belongs to the October 2020 update for Windows 10, which currently has a pretty massive 36 share of the market. Its shipments increased from 4.4 million in Q1 2020 to 12.1 million in Q1 2021. Chromebooks dominated the education sector with Chrome OS seeing a 174 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth. All outstanding balances are being refunded. All billing for existing accounts has been stopped. Lenovo was the largest global notebook PC shipments vendor with 16.3 million units shipped in Q1 2021 and a market share of 23.9 percent. IMPORTANT NOTICE: After 14 years of service and being used as a primary source in tens of thousands of articles and publications, we are retiring NetMarketShare in its current form. Global notebook PC shipments increased 81 percent year-on-year as more companies adopted a hybrid work model with an emphasis on remote working, according to a new report by market research firm Strategy Analytics on the first quarter of 2021. After IDC posted its own estimate of Mac market share at 7.4, Gartner has now weighed in with its own number.