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Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years

posted by martyb on Wednesday January 15 2020, @12:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-is-a-PC? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The Register:

Businesses upgrading to Windows 10 forced global PC sales into the black for the first time in seven years in 2019, but it could have been so much better if Intel's chip drought had eased.

Preliminary findings from Gartner pegged shipments at 261.23 million, up 0.6 per cent year-on-year, and rival analyst IDC reckons 266.69 million found their way on the shelves of distributors and resellers, itself up 2.7 per cent.

Forced upgrades from Microsoft still seem to outweigh jumps to Linux. Will that ever change?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Pino P on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:49PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:49PM (#943668) Journal

    The vast majority of ordinary people's need for computing devices can be done on a smartphone or tablet.

    That depends on what you consider "vast majority" and "ordinary people." Once more high school students start taking "Introduction to Computer Science," they'll suddenly need a PC, as tooling for such courses has traditionally been weak to nonexistent on smartphones and tablets running smartphone operating systems. And if a parent is unable or unwilling to buy a laptop for such a student on short notice, these students will end up shut out of opportunity.

    "But Termux..."
    Android API 29, introduced with Android 10, introduces a non-executable home directory [android.com]. Termux currently works around this by deliberately targeting an older API version [github.com]. But once Google updates the Google Play Store policy to make API 29 mandatory for submissions, this will make Termux a much less attractive way to turn an Android tablet into a substitute for an X11/Linux laptop.

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