PC product sales worldwide are growing, but at a much slower rate than predicted. The Apple iPad and other tablet PCs are whittling away at 2010 PC product sales and analysts expect the trend to continue. The growing reputation of hosted virtual desktops for business, combined with the tablet, is looked at as harbingers of the Personal Computer era’s end.
2010 results in PC sales down because of tablets
Monday was when the global 2010 PC product sales were cut for its forecast. This is what Gartner did as a tech research firm. The revision downward in Personal Computer product sales numbers was made due to the huge reception for the Apple’s iPad tablet. Personal Computer product sales will also go down with all the imitators of the iPad coming out and being sold. Gartner changed what the 2010 PC product sales from 2009 were. It went from 17.9 percent to 14.3 percent now. Also, growth was supposed to be 18.1 percent in 2011 for PC sales and is now 15.9 percent. 10 percent of Personal Computer sales are expected to be taken by tablets. This is supposed to happen by 2014.
The main reason fewer Personal computers are bought
Because of the weak employment and uncertain business climate, the PC sales already were suffering before Apple's iPad. You will find already much more iPads selling than Apple Macintosh computers. This can be a big change. PC's appear to be extremely necessary now and days. Of course, the industry hasn't been innovated at all lately because it’s focused more on making them cheaper and creating more. Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple. He explained the change from farmer's trucks to family automobiles in the 20th century is just like the change from PCs to tablets.
Are PCs likely to be eliminated?
There is another reason Personal Computer sales have eliminated down. Hosted virtual desktops (HVDs) are another reason. Employees are able to use HVDs in order to connect with a virtual machine running on a back-end server with cheap terminals. With HVDs, IT departments can deploy apps and fix operating systems without having to fiddle with individual units. It’s expected that HP and Dell will take huge hits soon. This is what will happen with these changes. 85 percent of Windows on new Personal computers comes from Microsoft. The company is going to have to change things too.
Info from
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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