PC Market stories
In the worldwide PC market, global shipments were above expectations, reaching 58.5 million during the last quarter.
PC shipments are set to decline by 0.6% in 2019, while mobile phone market is expected to return to growth in 2020, according to Gartner.
Pockets of growth, both in segments and geography, will persist, particularly in Asia Pacific, one of two regions to avoid shipment declines in 2019.
Dell EMC has claimed the top spot in the PC, servers, and storage markets, touting its dominance and strategy success in a recent blog post by Alison Dew.
PC shipments saw a 3.7% year-on-year decline in Q4 2018, with even the holiday season driven by consumer promotions failing to boost numbers.
An IDC report predicts a soft personal PC market, slipping into further decline with the exception of notebooks, gaming PCs, and business PC upgrades.
Despite the bleak forecast, IDC assures there are actually several pockets of opportunities and growth like gaming & ultraslim notebooks.
Australia's traditional PC market has bucked the global trend to record growth in Q2, driven by strong consumer, enterprise and public sector spend.
Commercial notebooks and detatchable tablets will help drive the personal computing device market back to growth – but it won't be until 2019.
IDC has released their report that details a slight decline in the personal computing devices market through to 2021 - it's not all bad though.
Lenovo aims to reduce heat, power consumption and carbon emissions with its new Low Temperature Solder (LTS) process. #innovation #sustainability.
Asia Pacific PC market sees 5.5% YoY decrease in 2016, but commercial market contracts by only 1.4%, says IDC.
Worldwide PC shipments in Q4 2016 totalled 70.2 million units, with a 1.5% decline YoY, according to IDC's tracker.
All hope is not dead for the PC market as the decline has slowed down, according to the latest statistics from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.
Indian demonetization slows down devices market, with cash dominating transactions, says IDC. Q4 2016 expected to contract.
It was only a couple months ago that Samsung sold its printer business to HP for more than $1 Billion - and soon its PC business could be gone too.
India's PC market saw a 17.3% rise in Q3 2016 shipments, thanks to festive consumer spending, despite a 22.5% year-on-year decline, IDC reports.
The preliminary results of one of Gartner's more recent studies paints a pretty gloomy picture for the PC market.
After two quarters of near 10% growth, the Australian PC market dipped -2.5% in 4Q18 - a trend that looks set to continue in 2019.
Despite the growth witnessed at the end of 2018, IDC predicts that New Zealand's traditional PC market in 2019 will decline by -4.4% YoY.
