{"id":2491,"date":"2011-12-20T20:25:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2011-12-20T20:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:25:18","slug":"apple-set-to-become-1-pc-manufacturer-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"Apple Set to Become #1 PC Manufacturer in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from market research firm Canalys noted that Apple is poised to become the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s number one PC manufacturer by mid-2012 (if you include tablet sales). Tim Coulling of Canalys stated that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Apple has seen its PC market share expand from 9 percent to 15 percent in just four quarters, though iPad shipments in its core market \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the United States \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are likely to come under pressure in Q4 due to the launch of the Fire and Nook at extremely competitive price points.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apple currently sits at #2 (with 15 percent market share) behind Hewlett Packard, who hold 16 percent market share. With the release of the iPad 3 pegged for Summer 2012 as well as a major Macbook Pro refresh on the horizon, Apple is expected to overtake HP by the second half of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from market research firm Canalys noted that Apple is poised to become the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s number one PC manufacturer by mid-2012 (if you include tablet sales). Tim Coulling of Canalys stated that: Apple has seen its PC market share expand from 9 percent to 15 percent in just four quarters, though iPad shipments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}