Who’s killing the PC? Blame the cloud
April 13, 2013
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jason Perlow.
If you’ve been following the news lately, you’d think it was the beginning of the end for the Personal Computer industry. According to a report recently released by Gartner, sales of PCs in the first quarter of 2013, regardless of manufacturer and operating system platform, are the worst since an all-time low in the second quarter of 2009.
IDC presented similar results in another study that indicates sales are down 14 percent from the fourth quarter of 2012.This is not just bad news, it’s awful news for no matter who you are, whether you produce PC software and operating systems, or PCs and PC components themselves…
It also doesn’t make a difference whether you’re headquartered in Redmond, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Cupertino, Austin, or Morrisville, North Carolina for that matter. Or Hong Kong. I cannot say that I am particularly surprised about this, because this is a topic that I have been writing about for a while…
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