MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro Sales totaled an Estimated 2.53 million in the first quarter of the 2016 calendar year, down from an Estimated 3.4 million in the year-ago quarter, according to market research firm TrendForce.
Apple's **tebook market share dropped to an Estimated 7.1-percent in the first quarter, down from 8.8-percent in the previous March quarter, as *******-based PC vendors and the overall **tebook industry continue to suffer from slowing sales.
Apple remained the sixth largest **tebook vendor in the first quarter, trailing behind PC makers Le**vo, HP, Dell, ASUS, and Acer but ahead of Samsung and Toshiba. Mac **tebook Sales dropped 40-percent quarter-over-quarter, but largely due to expected seasonality following the holiday shopping season.
In the first quarter, Apple did **t have any new MacBook products ready for the market, **r did it lower MacBook prices to generate sales. Apple?s Wintel-based competitors, on the other hand, benefitted from ******* 10 and the steady supply of Intel?s Skylake CPUs. They were able to have numerous new products ready to promote and ship. As a result, MacBook shipments suffered a massive quarterly decline of 40.4% in the first quarter and Apple retreated to the sixth place in the ranking.