Apple’s share of the US computer hardware market slipped during the first quarter of 2014, with both IDC and Gartner seeing a year-over-year decline in worldwide PC shipments as consumers trend toward mobile. Unlike last quarter’s amazing performance which saw Apple’s Mac buck the declining PC sales trend with a 30% year-to-year increase, the quarter ending in March proved to be more of a struggle for the company according to market research firms IDC and Gartner.

According to IDC, the Cupertino California company sold roughly 1.5 million Macs for the three month period ending in March, accounting


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