HP Solidified Hold in Q2 as Top Chromebook Brand: IDC
Chromebook shipments grew 68.6% globally in Q2 to 12.3 million units, despite the “tough comparison” with the 2020 period as the first full quarter of COVID-19 lockdowns, reported IDC Friday. Tablets grew 4.2% year over year to 40.5 million devices,…
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it said. “Both categories are experiencing some slowdown from the boom in the preceding quarters.” Chromebooks are still in high demand and “even on backlog” for many education deals, but vendors have started prioritizing higher-margin Windows laptops amid the ongoing component shortages, it said. The “bigger concern” with tablets is that consumer demand “will slow much faster than Chromebooks or even the broader PC market,” it said. Lenovo leapfrogged Acer in Q2 for second place in global Chromebook share, but HP solidified its position as top brand, increasing its share to 14 points from 6.2 points over its nearest competitor.