APPLE SALES DOWN TOO. From the article:
Bolstering his view that Windows 8 was not the primary reason for the PC industry’s problems was the fact that Apple also experienced flat sales in the U.S. Apple was as affected by competition from cheap touch tablets — including its own iPad and iPad Mini — as were Windows-powered PCs.
“The market is flat, and no one is outperforming the others,” said Baker, including Apple.
NPD’s data on Macs, collected at point-of-sale for both brick-and-mortar stores like Best Buy and online outlets such as Amazon.com, was out of sync with the estimates from IDC and Gartner. The former pegged Mac shipments as down 7.5% for the first quarter, while the latter tagged them as up 7.4%, an irreconcilable 15-point difference.
Apple will reveal its first-quarter sales figures Tuesday, April 23, in a conference call with Wall Street analysts. Meanwhile, Microsoft will release its quarterly revenue data, including that for Windows, on Thursday, April 18.
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How people are using PC`s is changing. It used to be that desktops were the only game in town to do anything, so sales were brisk.
Now that we have lot more options, it`s expected that what people buy and when they buy them will change. Cellphones have basically taken over most of the multimedia functions for most people, especially the young.
I don`t think this is any crisis, per se.
It is windows 8 and pretty as all heck- a bit of a pain in the a$$ to get used to until I figured out how to click and bring up the desktop.
Fast as all heck and beautiful graphics.
not sure it is relevant to the discussion here- i just wanted to gloat.
It’s all temporary. The ipads and iphones sales are being driven by the texting little finger people. Wait until they grow up and those fingers get fatter.
How come nobody wants to talk about the Obama Depression?
I can't really be the only person in the world holding off getting a new PC until they either "fix" W8, replace it, or someone starts selling PC's with W7 and not charging major bucks to remove W8 from it.
I'm seriously looking into just building my own (with W7).
Why not? Windows 8 sux and we all know it.
It’s the economy stupid!
Well also the study puts tablets in another category. So tablet devices with win8 makes it look worse for desktop/laptops even though they are selling win8/RT.
So I wonder what is slowing sales?
I know it can’t be our slowing economy, of course!
</sarcasm>
I am in the market right now for a relatively inexpensive laptop.
I will NOT buy anything with Windows 8 on it, though.