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Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC

Posted by timothy on from the is-it-personal-does-it-compute dept.

tsamsoniw writes "While research companies including IDC and Gartner deemed HP the PC leader for Q4 2012, Canalys has a different perspective. The analyst firm has declared Apple the top PC vendor for the past quarter, thanks in part to the booming success of the iPad and the iPad mini. By Canalys's reckoning, Amazon, too, now beats out the likes of Acer and Asus as leading PC vendors, having shipped 4.6 million Kindles in Q4."

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  1. Hmmm. by msauve · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple is now the top politically correct vendor. That must be because they censor apps.

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  2. Wrong by Barlo_Mung_42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    McDonalds is the top PC vendor, if you include Big Macs.

  3. Stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone knows Apple only sells Macs, not PCs.

  4. Re:So tablets at PCs now? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    I sleep with my iPad at night. That's pretty personal.

    You can have your klunky towers and desktops!

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