Last Thursday, data from IDC reportedly showed that Apple's Mac shipments had shrunk by 0.2 percent. There's just one problem with those numbers: Gartner doesn't agree, and even claims Mac market share actually grew just a bit.
AppleInsider is reporting that Gartner data reveals the Mac's share of the overall PC market grew by five percent year over year in Q4 2012 -- a completely different set of numbers from IDC data released late last week.
According to Gartner's preliminary data, Apple shipped more than 2.1 million Macs during the holiday quarter, up from two million during the same period in 2011, a 5.4 percent increase. Apple's slice of the pie also increased from 11.4 percent a year ago to 12.3 percent in Q4 2012.
The increase comes at a time when the overall PC market actually slid 2.1 percent, although rival IDC doesn't agree with Gartner's: IDC data released last Thursday shows Apple only sold two million Macs during the quarter for an 11.4 percent share of the overall PC market.
Regardless of which number proves to be accurate when Apple reveals their quarterly sales during the earnings call on January 24, the two data compilers do agree on one thing: The PC market is doing worse than the Mac.
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