Apple market share up or down, depending on who you ask

Early PC market share numbers are out from both Gartner and IDC for the second quarter of 2009. Depending on who’s numbers you trust more, though, Apple is either holding its own in US sales or experienced a drop in sales year-over-year to fall from fourth to fifth place.

According to Gartner, Apple had a slight unit sales growth year-over-year. When combined with an overall PC sales decline, it gave Apple 8.7 percent of the US PC market for calendar Q2. That’s up slightly from 8.4 percent this same time last year, and up significantly from the 7.4 percent Gartner recorded for Apple last quarter. From Gartner’s point of view, Apple holds its fourth place ranking that it ceded to netbook-maker Acer in Q4′08.

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