data from Gartner and IDC show Apple is battling Acer for the third spot in US computer system sales for the second quarter. As always, estimates from Gartner and IDC differ slightly, but they are enough to place Apple ahead of Acer by 65,000 units in Gartner’s...

to being disappointed in Vista. Apple’s 36 percent annual growth outpaces rest of the industry by a large margin and is in line with the latest market share estimates from Gartner and IDC that now have Apple and Accer battling for the third spot in US computer...

lines were catalysts for Mac market share increase, aided by growing customer dissatisfaction with Vista and Microsoft. It seems that more Windows PC users are downgrading to Windows XP or switching to Mac. The latest market data from IDC and Gartner rank Apple...

in the U.S. IDC estimates that RIM held 44.5% (Gartner: 42%) of the U.S. smartphone market share in the first quarter, while Apple came in second with 19.2% (Gartner: 20%). Wolf claims that RIM increased its enterprise subscriber base by 28% in fiscal 2008...

Hugues De La Vergne. Recent IDC research summarized by Reuters indicated that RIM’s BlackBerry has been increasing its US smartphone market share at the expense of iPhone and Motorola. IDC research puts RIM’s first quarter US smartphone market share at...