The growth of PC product sales worldwide has slowed enough to compel a revision in 2010 forecasts. Apple’s introduction of the iPad and the imitators that have followed are taking sales from PC manufacturers. The growing popularity of hosted virtual desktops for business, combined with the tablet, is looked at as harbingers of the Personal Computer era’s end.
2010 leads to PC sales down due to tablets
The global 2010 Personal Computer sales prediction was cut by a popular tech research firm Gartner on Monday. There was a huge change in PC product sales. This was since the Apple iPad tablet came out. Future sales of tablet imitators riding on the iPad’s coattails are also expected to cut into Personal Computer sales going forward. Gartner changed what the 2010 Personal Computer product sales from 2009 were. It went from 17.9 percent to 14.3 percent now. Gartner also scaled back forecasts for Personal Computer product sales in 2011 from 18.1 percent growth to just 15.9 percent. Tablets are expected to displace 10 percent of total Personal Computer sales by 2014.
The reason why Personal Computer product sales are decreasing
Apple’s iPad is the latest disruption to growth in PC sales that have suffered from an uncertain business climate and weak employment. You will find already much more iPads selling than Apple Macintosh computers. This can be a big change. A Gartner analyst said that even though PC’s are regarded as necessities, the industry’s focus on increasing volume by decreasing price and quality has hampered its ability to innovate. Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple. He explained the change from farmer's trucks to family vehicles within the 20th century is just like the change from PCs to tablets.
Eliminating the Personal Computer off?
There is another reason PC product sales have eliminated down. Hosted virtual desktops (HVDs) are another reason. Employees are able to use HVDs in order to connect to a virtual machine running on a back-end server with cheap terminals. The HVD is also helpful for IT departments. They’re able to fix big problems without having to go through every individual device. This is bad news for business like HP and Dell that are expected to take huge hits. Microsoft, which sells 85 percent of Windows on new PCs, will also have to adapt.
Articles cited
Computerworld
computerworld.com/s/article/9198381/Tablets_expected_to_clobber_PC_sales_in_2011?taxonomyId=12
Apple Insider
appleinsider.com/articles/10/11/29/tablets_like_apples_ipad_expected_to_displace_10_of_pcs_in_2014.html
San Francisco Chronicle
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/11/29/businessinsider-business-pc-market-strong-today-but-watch-out-2010-11.DTL
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