{"id":20974,"date":"2014-03-05T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=20974"},"modified":"2014-03-06T06:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:21:16","slug":"pc-sales-took-deepest-dive-ever-in-2013-and-thats-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/pc-sales-took-deepest-dive-ever-in-2013-and-thats-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Sales Took Deepest Dive Ever In 2013 &#8211; And That&#8217;s A Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IDC&#8217;s latest report on Personal Computer sales (and yes, that includes Macs) \u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24700314\">out<\/a> and it&#8217;s a grim read. Sales of traditional desktop computers dropped a steep -9.8%. The good news is, IDC was expecting sales to drop -10.1%. So um, yay?<\/p>\n<div itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/MediaObject\">\t<link href=\"http:\/\/accounts.icharts.net\/widget\/assets\/ichartwidget.css?v=2.1\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<div class=\"ichartsembed\">\n<div id=\"ichartsembed\" style=\"position: relative; height: 524px; width: 550px;\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"embedurl\" src=\"http:\/\/accounts.icharts.net\/icharts\/embed\/M3PUyitD\" height=\"524\" width=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"chartdiscussion\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 500px; right: 6px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icharts.net\/chartchannel\/ww-pc-forecast-form-factor-2012-2015-units-millions-and-yoy-growth_m3puyitdc\">iCharts<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"                 WW PC Forecast by Form Factor, 2012 - 2015                      (Units in Millions and YoY Growth)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"text\" content=\"Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, February 26, 2014. PC ForecastTaxonomy Note: PCs include Desktop, Mini Notebook and other Portable PCs, and do not include handhelds or Tablets such as the Apple iPad, Microsoft Surface Pro or Android Tablets\" \/><meta itemprop=\"keywords\" content=\"icharts, charts, chart, interactive, data journalism, IDC, IDC Research, idc.com, International Data Corporation, IDC Press Release, IDC data, PC market, PC shipment, notebooks, desktops, Mature Market, Emerging Market, Forecast, Ultraslim, All in One\" \/><meta itemprop=\"publisher\" content=\"IDC\" \/><meta itemprop=\"discussionUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/www.icharts.net\/chartchannel\/ww-pc-forecast-form-factor-2012-2015-units-millions-and-yoy-growth_m3puyitdc\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>IDC expects the downward trend to continue, due to a multitude of factors but it really does boil down to this: computers are not the only game in town anymore,. That even\u00a0\u00a0goes for what IDC and others condescendingly call &#8220;emerging markets&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Emerging markets used to be a core driver of the PC market, as rising penetration among large populations boosted overall growth,&#8221; said<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF000222\">Loren Loverde<\/a>, Vice President, Worldwide PC Trackers. &#8220;At the moment, however, we&#8217;re seeing emerging regions more affected by a weak economic environment as well as significant shifts in technology buying priorities. We do expect these regions to recover in the medium term and perform better than mature regions, but growth is expected to stabilize near zero percent, rather than driving increasing volumes as we saw in the past.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Translation: Money is tight and people are going for the best bang for their buck, which is likely not going to be a desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, if you wanted to get work done, your options were a desktop or laptop. PDAs were around, but those were meant to replace your daily planner and maybe jot some quick thoughts down. Smartphones existed, but they were either a muddled mess of too much (Windows Mobile), \u00a0a glorified PDA with some phone functionality (Treo), or a jumped-up pager (BlackBerry). All three options were still largely tethered to a desk.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few years, we&#8217;ve seen mobile devices that are truly mobile and do the majority of day-to-day tasks. \u00a0There&#8217;s really no reason to log on to my desktop at home when I&#8217;ve already answered all my e-mail, edited a post for next week, taken and uploaded my photos, and watched the latest episodes of my favorite shows. Heck, I&#8217;ve written a ton of articles for this side on my &#8220;obsolete&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/tablet\/techcitement-reviews-the-hp-touchpad-a-postmortem\/\" target=\"_blank\">HP TouchPad<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/tablet\/techcitement-review-zagg-flex-and-zaggfolio-keyboards\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZAGG Flex <\/a>Bluetooth keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, tablets aren&#8217;t (yet) a viable option for most people doing CAD work, video\/music editing, or serious photo work. The thing is, that&#8217;s a sub-set. General consumers are fine buying smartphones and tablets &#8211; especially when we have devices that blur the line like the Galaxy Note, LG G Pro, and HTC One Max. We&#8217;re even seeing it in those so-called &#8220;Emerging&#8221; markets, as companies HP and others have started pitching solutions like the <a href=\"http:\/\/h20435.www2.hp.com\/t5\/The-Next-Bench-Blog\/HP-Slate-VoiceTab-Phablets-coming-to-India\/ba-p\/86809#.Uxcq3OO8BKA\" target=\"_blank\">VoiceTab<\/a> line of tablets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20976\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20976\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20976\" alt=\"Also? VoiceTab is a much better term than &quot;Phablet&quot;.\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/voicetab-284x290.jpg\" width=\"284\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/voicetab-284x290.jpg 284.925w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/voicetab-268x273.jpg 268.2225w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/voicetab.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VoiceTab is a much better term than &#8220;Phablet&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2014 was bad for PCs and 2015 will be bad &#8211; as long as you continue to narrowly define a computer as a thing that sits on a desk. It&#8217;s time to realize that we&#8217;ve reached the point where someone&#8217;s first computer is going to be a phone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDC&#8217;s latest report on Personal Computer sales (and yes, that includes Macs) \u00a0is out and it&#8217;s a grim read. Sales of traditional desktop computers dropped a steep -9.8%. The good news is, IDC was expecting sales to drop -10.1%. So um, yay? iCharts IDC expects the downward trend to continue, due to a multitude of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1916,905,907,31],"tags":[5075,772,2746,5074],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20983,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20974\/revisions\/20983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}