India PC Sales Up 8 Percent To 3.24 Million Units
On the other hand, mobile PC sales grew 22 percent year- on-year, helping drive overall market growth.
HP was the market leader with over 32 percent market share, followed by Lenovo, Dell and Acer.
"Vendors continued to receive a boost in shipments as part of a large education project in UP. Also, their ability to maintain better pricing against competition tied with aggressive marketing campaigns on both desktops and portable PCs, helped them scale up their dominance in the India PC market," IDC Research Manager Kiran Kumar said.
IDC expects Q4 to crumble because seasonality and price hike may disrupt PC buying in the quarter ending December.
"Additionally, elections in Delhi, civil issues in the state of Andhra Pradesh are further expected to impact the overall buying in some of these larger states," Yadav said.
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