The Cupertino boys presented a little over a month ago at WWDC the renewal of the 2016 MacBook Pro launched in October of last year and new 12-inch MacBook Retina. All this suggests that Apple's Mac range is still in top shape and that you don't stop thinking about them, but the reality of sales as with other computers outside of Apple is different.
In this case, Gartner is one of the firms that usually carry out different market studies from time to time and in the case of Mac we cannot say that the figures are positive despite the changes in the second quarter of the year. It is not alarming either since it has simply dropped one point from the same dates last year, but Mac shipments suffer a bit in this Q2.
Make no mistake, Mac sales are still much lower today than Apple itself would like and this is something that happens with PC sales in general since users endure much more their equipment atother than not being so necessary today for many tasks. The so-called post-PC era means that we can do several things without the need for computers and Macs are still the best seller but they lose sales in favor of tablets and smartphones. Many users use these devices to surf the web, check mail or send messages among other tasks, which before was almost impossible to do without a computer is now possible.
Mac shipping figures for the second quarter of 2016 came according to Gartner at 4,252 and this year they stay at 4.236. The truth is that the table is negative in almost all brands and only HP Inc and Dell manage to increase shipments this quarter.
Then it is important to review some data such as the price range in which we can buy an HP or Dell, equipment that can be very cheap and that helps people buy them despite the fact that after a few months they begin to have problems of use due to a fair hardware configuration, which declines in shipments for other brands are much more pronounced that in Apple itself with Macs and the most important thing for everyone is the data at the end. Total shipments this second quarter are down a lot And this is the worst of all for computer manufacturers who have to do a little more to keep selling.
