According to new PC shipping estimates, Apple's worldwide Mac shipments were up in the second quarter of the year. The company shipped an estimated 6.4 million Macs during the quarter, up from 5.8 million in the year-ago quarter.
Gartner's Preliminary Worldwide PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 2Q22 (Thousands of Units)Apple had an 8% market share during the quarter. Apple had 17.9 million, 13 million, and 13.3 million shipments. Apple shipped more PCs than any other company with over 5 million and over 4 million.
Mac shipments were up despite severe supply constraints that caused some MacBook Pro models to be delayed for weeks or even months. The decline in shipments was caused by supply chain issues.
The market share trend for Apple is 1 Q06-2 Q22.
There were an estimated 72 million PCs shipped during the quarter, down from 82.4 million in the year-ago quarter. The global PC market has fallen in the last nine years.
In the second quarter of the year, Apple shipped an estimated 3.1 million Macs in the US, up from 2.6 million in the first quarter of the year. Dell, HP, andLenovo sold more PCs than Apple did.
There are thousands of units in the preliminary estimates.
The shipping estimates were released this morning by the International Data Corporation, which paints a more gloomy picture of Apple's Mac sales during the quarter. Apple shipped less than five million Macs in the second quarter of the year, a decline of more than twenty percent. Overall PC shipments were down by 15.3 percent, according to the research firm.
The estimates are different due to the fact that the data is not necessarily reflective of Apple's actual sales. Apple no longer breaks out unit sales for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, making it impossible to determine exact sales numbers, even though estimated data used to be able to be confirmed.