PC Market Consolidating Around Top 3 Vendors
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2013/10/10/pc-market-consolidating-around-top-3-vendors/
The recent news about PC's tend to focus around the third quarter of 2013 interestingly enough, and that may be due to what this article states. That being that shipments of PCs have increased as opposed to the other two quarters before it. This is due to what I mentioned earlier in my blogs, and that is what is called the "back to school" quarter, where students are looking for a laptop to do their work and such on. Unfortunately, these results, while currently positive, suggest yet another worldwide decline in 2014. As far as the top 3 managers go, they are Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Lenovo has a market share of 17.3% while HP's is 16.7% and Dell's is 11.6%. PC manufacturers Acer and Asus have lost a combined percentage of around 23%, due to Acer's failing netbook series and Asus focusing on the tablet market. The author suggests that Apple will replace Asus as the #5 spot in the PC market share soon.
It saddens me as a PC user to see the PC market in such a disarray. With only a few of the PC competitors rising in market share slightly, the rest are falling drastically. I don't believe that the PC market will ever completely die until tablets and things like that become as advanced as PCs, simply due to the uses you can get out of one. At least the top 3 manufacturers are pulling ahead for now, but if what the article says is right, and the PC market will take yet another nosedive, I fear for its longevity. It seems like the only thing keeping the market afloat are these top 3 big businesses. What if one or two of them just decide the PC market isn't worth it and left for something more popular? It would have a drastic effect on it, and most certainly a negative one.
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