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Why The U.S. PC Market is On The Decline

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-down dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek reports on the recent woes of Apple and Dell. One possible reason according to the article: 'imminent price wars'." From the article: "'There's a softness in the market that's building,' says Richard Shim, a senior research analyst at IDC. In the past two weeks, IDC cut its 2006 forecast for U.S. PC growth to 5.7%, from 6.8%. 'In '04 and '05 there was tremendous growth. In a market that's as mature as this industry is, there's no way you can maintain those levels.'"

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  1. Problems? by tomstdenis · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple: Overpriced crap

    Dell: Limited selection

    Maybe, just maybe, if companies stopped trying to be all exclusive and monopolistic people would appreciate their products.

    That and it goes in cycles anyways. Once everyone gets their 2005 computer they're not likely to buy another overpriced monstrocity in 2006.

    Tom

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  2. Re:Sort of a misleading summary. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple users are dying. Of AIDS.

  3. Re:Because the housing ATM is tapped by TrappedByMyself · · Score: -1, Troll

    3+ gal gasoline and higher cost of borrowing are beginning to weigh the US consumer. Things are going to get much worse.

    Oh goodie. If you kill yourself, can I have your stuff?

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  4. Re:Old PCs Still Good and Net same speed by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 0, Troll

    The difference between the two systems when surfing the web is like night and day

    Again, my son had an iMac. Built in firewire and full Net. plugged directly into the cable modem out port.

    Switching to the Mac mini - same basic firewire, same cable modem.

    No perceptible difference.

    It's not a PC. PCs care about that stuff. Macs just work.

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  5. More popular than PCs: Killing Iraqis. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Number 1 reason "Why The U.S. PC Market is On The Decline": Americans are spending most of their money killing Iraqis.

    I suppose that a lot of them think, "Why kill people in video games when we can kill real people?"

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