IDC: PC market vs tablet market 2016, tablet market falls vastly short of PC market.

[tak13]

Leadified said:

tak13 said:

Yeah so much for the death of PC market lol...

Reading all these articles, I was shocked when I realized  from research that tablet market sizenever had surpassed PC market, their smallest difference ever was  30-40m...

Well, pc market stopped reaching the heights of 310-320mm+ shipment per year ,  it fell to 250-260m+, so some  journalist and analysts hastened to predict the death of the market and some other were overstating with the decline, they forgot where pc market was before 6-8 years...

 

Does it remind you something?

 

The reason why tablet market hasn't fallen even more is the existence of  a specific type of devices like Microsoft surface Pro and may rebound in the future because of these!

Most of the doom comes from the erosion of low end pre-built PCs but also conveniently ignoring all the other data that shows growth in general hardware shipments and growth in the high end market.

I think tablets are a bit stuck, they do not have the portabiltiy of a phone nor the multi-tasking capacity of a PC (except for the Surface ones). Personally, my Android tablet is mostly a glorified Youtube player when I don't want to be at my PC.

You put it very well!

 

Look that chart, yeah pc market is back to 2006-2008  levels and has now stabilized, so it's dying... HAHAAH It's not allowed to decline and return to levels before the start of the consecutive growth...

For god's sake, some journalists and anal-ysts infuriate me!