This article tlaks about how in the second trimester of 2012, Apple will pass HP as the world's largest supplier of computers. The reason is that Apple's growth in the last four quarters was incredible from 9% of the share to 15% of the worldwide share, and the pads, especially iPads are potentially increasing the PC demands, thus overpassing in half a year the domain of HP.“Pads, particularly the iPad, have radically changed the dynamics of the PC industry over the past year, already propelling Apple into second place in the worldwide PC market in the third quarter of 2011," Tim Coulling, analyst at Canalys said.
Canalys also predicts a growth of the market with the intruduction of ultrabooks. HP released its new ultrabook last week, priced at $899.99 the company probably expects to make competence towards the powerful Apple with this release.However, the floods in Thailand, place where many computers are made and shipped, will probably reduce shipments of desktops, netbooks and notebooks.
Still, HP continues to have the largest share of the market with 19% in the third quarter of 2011, however Apple and Samsung were the only UK PC suppliers to show an increase in their shares, with 22% and 40% respectively.
