{"id":10142,"date":"2013-04-10T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/idc_pc_sales_decline_substantially.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:35:03","slug":"idc-pc-sales-decline-substantially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/idc-pc-sales-decline-substantially.html","title":{"rendered":"IDC: PC Sales Decline Substantially"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24065413#.UWXWuMo2h9u\">IDC<\/a>, PC sales are in a tailspin with 76.3 million units sold in the first quarter of 2013. This number represents a decline of 13.9% compared to the forecast decline of 7.7%. These are the worst numbers since IDC started tracking in 1994 and it is the fourth quarter of year-on-year shipment declines.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ichartsembed\">\n<div id=\"ichartsembed\" style=\"position: relative; height: 474px; width: 460px;\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/accounts.icharts.net\/icharts\/embed\/M3\/bwylF\" width=\"460\" height=\"474\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"chartdiscussion\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 450px; right: 6px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icharts.net\/chartchannel\/worldwide-pc-market-yoy-growth-rates-1q-2013_m3bwylfc\">iCharts<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft recently saw the prices of many of its Windows 8 machines slashed only months after they became available&hellip; This report sheds some light on the situation. In my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/windows-8-relegated-to-budget-status.html\">post<\/a> on the matter I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It seems Microsoft is getting known for making an OS you HAVE to buy while Apple makes an OS you WANT to buy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Windows 8 needs better marketing, an update or perhaps something else to get people to accept it. These numbers should keep a slew of execs in the traditional PC market awake for many nights.<\/p>\n<p>HP, Dell, Acer, Toshiba and Apple all saw their PC sales decline while Lenovo grew 10% in the US but remained flat worldwide. ASUS saw some growth in the US and substantial declines elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>What this tells us is we are indeed in a post-PC era and as smartphones become more usable and tablets approximate the functions of a PC, consumers are not upgrading their old computers as quickly or buying new ones at all.<\/p>\n<p>Unless Microsoft can generate some PC market excitement, the ramifications for suppliers, IT departments and developers are obvious&#8230; The PC market as we once knew it is declining more quickly than anticipated as consumers gravitate towards Android and iOS. These groups need to ensure their strategies are in-line with the current trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to IDC, PC sales are in a tailspin with 76.3 million units sold in the first quarter of 2013. This number represents a decline of 13.9% compared to the forecast decline of 7.7%. These are the worst numbers since IDC started tracking in 1994 and it is the fourth quarter of year-on-year shipment declines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,158,172,196,163,188,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19017,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/19017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}