PC shipments plunge but Apple bucks trend: IDC


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 13 Jan 2016

Bucking the trend: While PC sales slumped in 2015, Apple saw its position improve with shipments climbing 2.8% to some 5.66 billion in a year-over-year comparison, according to IDC.

SAN FRANCISCO: Last year ended with a record-setting drop in personal computer shipments, with Apple bucking the trend, a report found. 

The International Data Corporation calculated that some 71.9 million personal computers (PCs) were shipped worldwide in the final quarter of 2015, a 10.6% drop from the same period a year earlier. 

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