mac shipments fell last year but pc shipments dropped too

That's down 5.0 percent from 2017, and the reduction lowered Apple's share of the world market from 7.2 to 6.9 percent..   PC market shrank 1.3 percent in 2018, which is smaller decline that in the past three years. .   The majority of PC shipment decline in 2018 was due to PC shipments, said Mikako Kitagawa, senior principal analyst at Gartner..   Consumer shipments accounted for approximately 40 percent of PC shipments in 2018 compared with representing 49 percent of shipments in 2014...   Lenovo was up 6.9 percent for the year, HP shipments were up 2.1 percent and Dell saw 5.5 percent increase..   And these figures include desktops and laptops and not iPad, which has significant effect on the totals.   But PC market did much worse so, that Apple's share of global shipments increased from 7.1 percent to 7.2 percent..   But again, the rest of the industry did worse so Apple's share increased from 12.1 percent to 12.4 percent..   Rival HP saw 7.6 percent drop last quarter, while Dell rose 0.9 percent and sales of Microsoft Surface line fell 12.9 percent.   standout was Lenovo who saw whopping 23.4 percent increase in shipments, according to Gartner.   Read more