Laptops help Apple increase PC market share

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Sales of Apple computers, buoyed by demand for its laptops, are on the rise, despite the distraction of marketing and negotiating with mobile phone carriers for its upcoming launch of the iPhone in the UK and Europe.

Figures released by two market researchers this week show sales of Apple's Macbook and Macbook Pro laptop products increased its US market share to 17.6 per cent, moving the company to third place in terms of global market share.

According to researcher NDP, Apple's retail laptop market share rose 2.2 per in June compared to sales in the same month last year.

Meanwhile data from analyst IDC puts Apple third in terms of global computer makers' market share for the first time since 1996, behind first and second place, Dell and HP, respectively. Gateway and Acer rounded out the researcher's top five for the last quarter.

Apple said in its last quarterly financial statement that it had sold some 1.8 million Macs in its most recent financial quarter, marking a 33 per cent rise over the same quarter's sales from last year. This amounts to 2.5 times the industry wide growth rate calculated by IDC.

Meanwhile, a report published today by the Financial Times indicates that Apple has finally signed up three European mobile phone carriers to sell the iPhone when it finally begins shipping here before the end of this year.

The vendor was particularly bullish about the success of the iPhone in the US in the meantime, last month saying it expects to sell one million units by its fourth fiscal quarter ending September.

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