{"id":151911,"date":"2016-01-13T08:33:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=151911"},"modified":"2016-01-13T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T06:34:42","slug":"pc-shipments-hit-record-low-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/151911-pc-shipments-hit-record-low-decline.html","title":{"rendered":"PC shipments hit record low decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS40909316\" target=\"_blank\">report from IDC<\/a><\/strong> shows that PC shipments fell by 10.6%, year-on-year, for the 4th quarter of 2015 &#8211; the biggest decline ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>According to a reprt by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/12\/pc-shipment-drop-is-worst-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget<\/a><\/strong>, Gartner&#8217;s figures painted a marginally better picture &#8211; a drop of 8.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Asus were two brands which bucked the trend, with Q4 growth figures of 2.8% and 0.8% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>HP was the single biggest loser, dropping 10.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Engadget said industry analysts pegged the decline on longer PC upgrade cycles, in combination with the increase in powerful smartphones and tablets on the market.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More hardware news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/151567-top-laptops-at-ces-2016.html\">Top laptops at CES 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/151541-top-gadgets-and-tech-products-from-ces-2016.html\">Top gadgets and tech products from CES 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from IDC shows that PC shipments fell by 10.6%, year-on-year, for the 4th quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":146151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[36,605,947,3198],"class_list":["post-151911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-asus","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151915,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151911\/revisions\/151915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}