The technology landscape is constantly changing, and there’s no guaranteed that top-selling devices of today won’t be eclipsed by something else tomorrow.
The global PC industry is suffering some of it’s worst losses ever
According to a global sales analyses, worldwide PC shipments have fallen by 5.7% in the third quarter of 2016 to 68.9 million units. According to the survey, “This was the eighth consecutive quarter of PC shipment decline, the longest duration of decline in the history of the PC industry.”
The reason for the declining sales are mainly “the extension of the lifetime of the PC caused by the excess of consumer devices, and weak PC consumer demand in emerging markets,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.
Devices such as smartphones are fulfilling many of the functions that desktop PCs used to, and devices such as tablets and MacBooks are replacing PCs altogether in many homes. And notebooks are also under threat as devices such as the iPad Pro are being released with keyboard peripherals in the hopes that they will one day replace notebooks.
While big PC brands Asus, Dell and HP had small, slow single-digit growth over the past year, Acer, Apple and Lenovo all experienced double-digit drops in sales over the past year.
via BusinessWire
