Consumer demand, projects revive country's quarterly PC sales

After excluding large education projects of over 10,000 units, the market still grew 10.9 per cent year-on-year, IDC said.

However, the shipments could decline in the fourth quarter due to seasonality and reduced consumer demand after the high-consumer spending in the third quarter, it added.

"Seasonality and online festive sales drove positive consumer spending throughout the quarter despite declining consumer sentiment on the back of low employment opportunities, income and price levels," IDC India Associate Research Manager (Client Devices) Manish Yadav said. On a sequential basis, shipments were up 72.3 per cent from the June 2017 quarter.

HP maintained its leadership position in the PC market with 31.1 per cent share, followed by Lenovo (24.1 per cent), Dell (20 per cent) and Acer (10.8 per cent).

"It's a proud moment for HP to have consistently sustained market leadership in the personal computing industry. We are at an exciting juncture in our journey as we reinvent ourselves on the basis of design, innovation and customer value," HP India MD Sumeer Chandra said.

During the said quarter, the consumer segment accounted for 1.51 million units, up 9.5 per cent from the year-ago period.

"Seasonality and online festive sales drove positive consumer spending throughout the quarter despite declining consumer sentiment on the back of low employment opportunities, income and price levels," IDC India Associate Research Manager (Client Devices) Manish Yadav said.

The commercial PC market saw 1.52 million units being shipped in the third quarter with the share of large education projects increasing to 50.2 per cent from 45.2 per cent a year ago.

New Delhi: Mobile handset shipments in India are likely to touch 262 million units by the end of the year with feature phones continuing to dominate the market, a report by CyberMedia Research on Thursday said. CMR estimates the mobile handset shipments to clock 262 million units by the year-end, with feature phones ruling the roost with 141.6 million units and smartphones accounting for 124 million units, it said. Since the beginning of 2017, mobile handset vendors have shipped around 200 million mobile handset units in India, it added. The report said the smartphone market recorded 29 per cent sequential growth in the September quarter, with 37.5 million units shipped on the back of the festive season sales. "While Q4 will see the introduction of several marquee flagship brands, the India market will continue to be driven by the affordable (under Rs 7,000) and value for money (Rs 7,000-25,000) segments," CMR Head Industry Intelligence Group (IIG) Prabhu Ram said.