Largest Computer Makers when Smartphones and Tablets are Included

I just formally launched the TomiAhonen Almanac 2015 edition yesterday on this blog. One of the popular charts thats been in the Almanac is the counting of the world's largest computer manufacturers, when the legacy computers like mainframes and PCs, are added together with smartphones and tablets. This is becoming the way the industry is measured, but my consultancy was the first to publish this way of counting the computer industry and we've put that chart on this blog every year. Here is last year's chart. But its time to do the new chart. So for the largest computer manufacturers in the world, for total annual computer sales volume, at the end of 2014, when all types of computers are added to the count, this is the chart for 2015:

LARGEST COMPUTER MAKERS WHEN SMARTPHONES & TABLETS INCLUDED
Rank (was) . . Brand . . . . . . Units 2014 . . Market Share 2014 (was 2013)
1 (1) . . . . . . . Samsung . . . 354 M . . . . . 20% (24%)
2 (2) . . . . . . . Apple . . . . . . 282 M . . . . . 16% (18%)
3 (3) . . . . . . . Lenovo . . . . . 131 M . . . . . . 8% (8%)
4 (4)  . . . . . . Huawei . . . . . . 75 M . . . . . . 4% (4%)
5 ( - ) . . . . . . Xiaomi  . . . . . . 61 M . . . . . . 4% ( - )
6 (5) . . . . . . . HP  . . . . . . . . . 56 M . . . . . . 3% (3%)
7 (6) . . . . . . . LG. . . . . . . . . . 49 M . . . . . . 3% (3%)
8 (8) . . . . . . . ZTE . . . . . . . . . 46 M . . . . . . 3% (3%)
9 (10) . . . . . . Coolpad  . . . . . 45 M . . . . . . 2% (2%)
10 tie (9) . . . . Dell . . . . . . . . . 41 M . . . . . . 2% (3%)
10 tie ( - ) . . . TCL/Alcatel . . . 41 M . . . .  . . 2% ( - )
 . . . . . . . . . .  Others . . . . . . 549 M  . . . . . 32% (29%)
TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,740 M
Source: TomiAhonen Almanac 2015 from company and industry data, December 2015
This data and this table may be freely shared

So Sony drops out as it sold its Vaio business and the smartphone business has been struggling. New chart entrants Xiaomi and TCL from China are powered only by smartphone sales. Traditional PC giants, Dell and HP keep dropping down on the charts as they are not participating in the fastest growing side of the computer business, the smartphones. Lenovo held its ground in market share so of the top 3 its the only one able to keep pace with the computer industry growth rate and it obviously sells computers in all the sectors of the industry. Samsung and Apple gave up market share while holding their top rankings. The race in the midfield is very intense and close.

Thats the state of the computer industry and how its being devoured by the smartphone side. HP is signalling a return to smartphones after the mess it made of its Palm purchase some years back. Dell so far has not shown any interest in returning to mobile after it got burned badly with Windows based smartphones. (This blog corrected, earlier Apple share showed 15%, thanks to reader Rocwurst for spotting the math error)

If you wanted more stats on the mobile industry, check out the TomiAhonen Almanac 2015, there are a dozen sample graphs for you and the ordering link at this page.

Comments

[Winter]

@Tester
"And you really think that's an isolated occurence? That's how big business works!"

Saying all people at some time will break the law is not making everyone "equivalent" to hardened career criminals. MS paid $1B in fines and legal settlement EACH year since 1990 or so. They have been convicted for illegal (note, ILLEGAL) monopoly abuses on every inhabited continent. All big business will abuse some people some of the time. MS made it an art form by screwing over ALL of the people ALL of the time.
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-is-filled-with-abusive-managers-and-overworked-employees-says-tell-all-book-2012-5?op=1&IR=T

@Tester
"Where was IBM 'screwed over', for example?"

I agree that was only in 1995 that MS killed OS/2
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/12/killing_os_2_by_quotas/

@Tester
"And where is this worse than what other companies are doing - just as an example, what do you think about Oracle's ridiculous lawsuit against Google over the Java API copyright?"

Oracle is like MS in more than one way. Besides being as abusive, Oracle too has a history of failure in anything outside their database pseudo-"monopoly".

[Togga]

@chithanh

Of course I can say that. Statcounter has versions split for a reason and under that reason they does not split some Android versions. Maybe that may be that they cannot separate versions.

Take it as a (very visual) sign that PC is becoming less relevant, and it's moving fast.