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PC decline: what happened in 2010 to 2012?

The preliminary results for 2018 PC shipments shave been released. Gartner reports that PC shipments declined 4.3% from last quarter and 1.3% from the same quarter the previous year. Why? If you look at the history of PC shipments, you can see they stopped growing and started declining in 2012. History of PC shipments since their introduction   The PC market ...

Jon Peddie

The preliminary results for 2018 PC shipments shave been released. Gartner reports that PC shipments declined 4.3% from last quarter and 1.3% from the same quarter the previous year. Why? If you look at the history of PC shipments, you can see they stopped growing and started declining in 2012. History of PC shipments since their introduction   The PC market survived the turn of the century dot-com meltdown, and the massive 2008 housing crisis-induced recession, and kept on growing and expanding until 2010, with 2012 being the peak year in shipments. On January 27, 2010, Apple introduced the iPad, a
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