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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 06 2017, @08:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the ups-and-downs dept.

The PC market may have stabilized and could see its recent declines reverse:

The PC market is forecast to return to growth next year according to Gartner, as buyers come to the end of their evaluation periods for Windows 10.

Worldwide PC shipments are expected to hit 267 million units in 2018, a 1.9 per cent increase on 2017, when shipments are forecast to reach 262 million. By 2019, shipments are pegged to hit 272 million units.

This year's PC sales are however expected to fall yet again for the sixth consecutive year, with shipments dropping three per cent when compared with 2016.

[...] Elsewhere, smartphone shipments will also continue to grow at a healthy rate, the market watcher claims. Shipments are expected to grow 5 per cent year on year to nearly 1.6 billion units in 2017. Gartner claims that the market is experiencing a shift away from low-cost "utility" phones, towards higher-priced "basic" and "premium" smartphone devices.

PC components are becoming slightly more expensive at the same time.

Also at EE Times.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @08:47PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @08:47PM (#535861)

    on your purchased but not-so-fully owned (or: soon to be pwn3d) computer system thanks to clipper chip on steroids (Intel ME, TrustZone, AMD PSP (rebadged TrustZone, although pre-PSP was LM32, or Xtensa for your AMD GPUs (Look up 'UVD Xtensa HD2400') and possibly others...)

    A lack of privacy would be fine if light was shined in every crevice and nook of *EVERYONE'S* lives, but since it isn't, and there are the haves and the have nots, our digital devices *MUST HAVE* comprehensive security, ideally unbreakable without physical access, in order to ensure personal liberty remains.

    Sadly most of the populace is perfectly happy in chains, so long as they have their reality TV, or their kids, or their church, or just those people they hate that they occasionally get to make derisive comments at, burn crosses on their front laws, or murder.

    Do I seem cynical much?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:01PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:01PM (#535868)

    No, I think you seem far too optimistic about the current state of society.

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:02PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:02PM (#535869)

    You left out a closing parenthesis.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Friday July 07 2017, @06:03AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday July 07 2017, @06:03AM (#536021) Journal

      You left out a closing parenthesis.

      You must be a LISP programmer. :-)

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.