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PC Market Shows Signs of Recovery (betanews.com)
PC shipments will continue to decline in 2016, according to a new IDC forecast, but the drop will be slightly lower than previously expected. What's more, things will improve even more in 2017. BetaNews adds: IDC expects PC vendors to ship a total of 258.2 million units this year, a figure which would be 6.4 percent lower than last year. The previous estimate was a 7.2 percent fall, which IDC announced in August. Growth will still be negative in 2017, but shipments are expected to decrease by just 2.6 percent compared to this year. IDC believes that commercial shipments of notebooks will grow this year, while desktops should stay flat in terms of growth. The pressure from mobile devices is said to decrease as the markets mature. The tablet market, in particular, is not as big of a concern or threat as it sees declining shipments as well. "The PC market continues to perform close to expectations", says IDC Worldwide Tracker Forecasting and PC research vice president Loren Loverde. "Some volatility in emerging regions is being offset by incremental gains in larger mature markets while the interaction with tablets and phones is stabilizing. We continue to see steady progression toward smaller desktops and notebooks as replacement buying helps stabilize overall shipments in the coming years".
Which will be never.... advances to technology that might otherwise place mobile tech more in line with desktop pcs tend to improve the performance of desktop pc's as well, so the target of being on par with the desktop is a moving one that cannot be reached unless somehow progress was only being made to improve the mobile platform experience that didn't also improve the performance of desktops as well.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Mobile will never fully replace the PC market, yes your phone might have plenty of CPU power, but when you get to your office you're not going to work on massive spread sheets or do hours of data entry on it. Phones and tablets might replace most PC's for home use, but they are realistically just a supplement to the pc's of the business world.
PC shipments will continue to decline in 2016, according to a new IDC forecast, but the drop will be slightly lower than previously expected
One of the most imaginative definitions of 'recovery' that I've ever seen. It's like a kid who went from an A to a C in one term, and C to a D in the next, and claims that he's 'improved' b'cos he didn't go from C to an F.
Almost like how in Washington DC, baseline budgeting is done. If you are spending $100M on something and a proposal is made to raise it to $125M, but instead, the expense is only raised to $115M, then it's called a 'cut'. Nobody defines numerical shifts that way, excepting people in government... and market analysts