Apple and Android split Santa's stash, go on Xmas PC and tab high

Apple sold more tablets and PCs than anybody over the Christmas trading period but – just like everybody else – it felt growing pressure from Google’s Android. That is the story of PC and tablet makers for the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the first numbers for the period from analyst outfit Canalys, given to The …

[Frankee Llonnygog]

I wonder how long before ...

Lenovo buys Microsoft's Windows OS business?

I know, I know - it's an insane idea. But remember - they laughed at Norman Wisdom...

[Frankee Llonnygog]

Re: I wonder how long before ...

No, it means you're not Albanian

[c:\boot.ini]

In the UK, Microsoft sold 124,000 Surfaces – up from 90 in 2012. You read that correctly: 90 Surfaces were sold in the whole of the UK in the fourth quarter of 2012.

[Anonymous Coward]

"90 Surfaces were sold in the whole of the UK"

Names and addresses? I have a bridge in London for which I need a quick buyer.

[jai]

P.C.

Personal Computer - the term is OS and manufacturer agnostic. It's not a trademark for a machine that runs windows or linux or BeOS or.....

[Steve Knox]

RE: the term is OS and manufacturer agnostic.

Not according to a particular fruity manufacturer...

[Richard Plinston]

Re: RE: the term is OS and manufacturer agnostic.

The first company to use "personal computer" in advertising was ... Apple for their Apple II in 1978.

These days the computers that are the most 'personal' are the ones in your pockets.

[Pookietoo]

Re: I sold more PC's than Apple

No you didn't - apart from it not saying "Wintel PCs" Apple's current desktop and laptop hardware will happily run Windows anyway.

[Big_Ted]

Cor

I almost became a member of a very exclusive club and boosted that figure to 91......

Then I woke up next day without the alchohol bending my reality field and didn't buy one after all.

I bet also that even the most doubtful among us wouldn't have given a figure that low if we were serious about it.......

[Phil_Evans]

"Of that, Microsoft was the single largest OEM to offer Windows 8 via Surface, with Microsoft accounting for 51 per cent of sales of Windows 8 tabs."

I take it there's just one other fool trying to sell the remaining 49 % ?

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.dell.com/us/p/dell-venue-8-pro/pd

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/ideatab/miix-series/miix-2/

http://www.toshiba.com/us/tablets/encore/8/

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Tablets/Omni/F4C56UA?HP-Omni10

And the rather nifty Transformer T100, a laptop with a detachable keyboard.

http://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_Transformer_Book_T100/

[Alan Denman]

A Sterling cliff hanger

With all that lucre now gone to an off-shore haven instead of the exchequer, globally Sterling edges ever towards the cliffs of Dover

[Anonymous Coward]

That's a lot of tablets for a single vendor (Apple) to ship and especially so considering their premium price and that they were contstrained for most / all the period so if they could have made more they would have sold more.

[Paul Crawford]

This report kind of agrees what what I heard from family/friends/work: that Apple were top dog in choice, but Android the most popular cost+usefulness combination.

Me, I ended up buying a Chromebook from PC World as a replacement for an old netbook (two good reasons to feel a bit dirty), mainly because it was <£200 and "good enough". Had a WinRT slab been unlocked so I had the choice of dual-booting Linux, and using the supplied Windows ARM-variant, it probably would have won...

Oh well, that is how the cookie crumbles!