PC Market Shrinks, People Want More Tablets
PC manufacturers experienced the first decline in overall PC shipments in the first quarter since the most recent recession.
This time, however, the reason may not be another looming recession, but the simple fact that the netbook is on its way out and PC manufacturers did not respond quickly enough to a changing market environment.
According to Gartner, the overall market lost 1.1% and dropped to 84.3 million shipped PCs in the first quarter of this year. HP and Dell lost slightly, but Acer dropped by 12.2% from 12.4 million PCs to 10.9 million. Lenovo and Toshiba were able to increase their sales by 16.6 and 5.3%, respectively. Gartner indicated that Acer is especially vulnerable as the company is especially dependent on netbook and mini-notebook shipments. It is quite apparent that the iPad has impacted the netbook market, but Gartner said that it is unclear whether this is a short-term or a long-term trend.
In the U.S., Apple gained 18.9% and sold 1.5 million PCs as compared to less than 1.3 million in the quarter one year ago. The only other manufacturer that was able to increase its shipments in the U.S. was Toshiba (+10.9%). The overall PC market contracted by 6.1% to 16.1 million units, according to Gartner. It is quite apparent that Apple has found a way to extend its product line with the iPad, which does not affect its own product sales, but apparently hurts traditional PC vendors.
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It is quite apparent that this article is full of fluff...
We are in the midst of a massive global recession
Intel's new chipset was plagued with launch problems
The sales of tablets in no way make up the difference in sales numbers
You fail to show any of the actual increased figures for any company other than Apple, how many PCs did Toshiba or Lenovo sell?
You talk about GLOBAL sales of computers and then cherry pick Apple's sales figures from just America (where they sell MUCH better than the rest of the world).
Where are you getting these conclusions from ? I guess they were written in a shareholders leaflet from Apple....
It is quite apparent that this 'news' is COMPLETE garbage...
people might be buying more tablets, but you need a PC or laptop to be able to use the tablet properly and for gamers they cant switch to tablets as they need the great GPUs and CPUs to power games like crysis... these sales figures only show computers made by these companies but does not mention that millions of people build their own computers or that they buy from smaller companies. and as said above "It is quite apparent that this 'news' is COMPLETE garbage..."