Apple now has 8% of the global personal computer market; up from 6.1% a year ago — Apple World Today

IDC says the last time the personal computer market saw annual growth of this magnitude was 2010 when the market grew 13.7%. A lot has changed in those 10 years, including six years of personal computer market decline, as well as a year of flat growth. The question now is how long this resurgence will last.

According to IDC, Apple’s Mac sales grew 49.2% year-over-year from the fourth quarter of 2019 to the fourth quarter of 2020. With Mac shipments of 7.3 million Macs in quarter four of 2020, Apple now has 8% of the global computer market, up from 6.8% in the year-ago quarter.