{"id":81969,"date":"2013-07-11T01:34:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T23:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=81969"},"modified":"2013-07-11T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:02:48","slug":"devastated-global-pc-market-shrinks-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81969-devastated-global-pc-market-shrinks-further.html","title":{"rendered":"Devastated global PC market shrinks further"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global shipments of personal computers slumped 10.9 percent in the second quarter, the fifth straight quarterly decline in a market that has been devastated by the popularity of tablets, research firm Gartner<\/a> said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Marking the longest decline in the PC industry’s history, Hewlett-Packard<\/a> in the June quarter lost ground to Lenovo<\/a>, now the world’s leading personal computer maker with a market share of 16.7 percent.<\/p>\n

“We are seeing the PC market reduction directly tied to the shrinking installed base of PCs, as inexpensive tablets displace the low-end machines used primarily for consumption in mature and developed markets,” Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa<\/a> said in a news release.<\/p>\n

Also on Wednesday, research firm IDC<\/a> said PC shipments dropped 11.4 percent in the second quarter, a bit better than expected.<\/p>\n

“With second-quarter growth so close to forecast, we are still looking for some improvement in growth during the second half of the year,” analyst Jay Chou said in IDC’s report.<\/p>\n

PC makers shipped 76 million computers in the June quarter, compared with 85.3 million in the same quarter last year, Gartner said.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Noel Randewich; Editing by Leslie Adler)<\/p>\n

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