According to the latest data released by market research firm Counterpoint Research, global PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2022 were 65.2 million units, down 27.8 percent year-over-year. Apple withstood the severe test of the market plunge, shipping 7 million units, down just 3 percent year-on-year.
In the report, Apple reported relatively stable shipments throughout 2022 and continued to eat into the market share of x86 vendors. Apple’s market share reached double digits in the second half of 2022 and 9.4 percent for the full year 2022.
The market for Mac devices with Apple’s own Apple Silicon chips is performing well. Apple updated its 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air with the M2 chip in 2022, and shipped 7 million Mac devices in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to 7.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Although such results do not look impressive at first glance, compared to HP and Lenovo’s 20%-30% decline, such performance is very bright.
