wraggster
December 3rd, 2013, 23:03
Zach Whittaker over at ZDNet covers an IDC report. In it the 2013 9.7% forecast decline in PC shipments is advanced to 10.1% (http://www.zdnet.com/pc-shipments-to-decline-further-than-expected-no-significant-recovery-expected-7000023851/). Further, IDC's longer-term forecast (http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24466513) turns quite grim: contracting 23% from 2012 levels by 2017. There is also a projection of future Windows tablet sales, and a statement that total Windows tablet sales for 2013 are expected to be 'less than 7.5 million units.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/12/03/024225/idc-pc-shipments-decline-worse-than-forecasted-no-recovery-expected
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/12/03/024225/idc-pc-shipments-decline-worse-than-forecasted-no-recovery-expected