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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.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:07PM (3 children)
It had been a while since I got a chance to repeat my law of "forecasting with 3 significant digits is BS".
Thanks Gartner, you never fail me. You've gone out of your way to predict a 1.9% increase too, because 2% would be so mundane... Shouldn't that be 1.92% instead?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:58PM
Anybody could swag 2%, 1.9% implies that they used data and computation to get their prediction.
1.92% would be gilding the lilly, measuring a brick with a micrometer, or the crystal ball getting delusions of competence in forecasting.
Forecasting next quarter might happen with some precision, forecasting 4 quarters in the future would be ignoring the fact that their signal is completely buried in noise.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday July 07 2017, @01:49AM (1 child)
Gartner will study it. And it will find what ever you want, to any number of digits.
JD Powers will give you an award, as leader in your special little class of one.
With just a few thousand, you too can be special.
You too can have a Participation Trophy.
How is it that soccer moms gained control of sales and marketing?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday July 07 2017, @04:15PM
> How is it that soccer moms gained control of sales and marketing?
Gotta think like your target audience?