PC sales drop. How about laptops and tablets?
PCs last a long time now , meaning running newer software
Why buy new phone or pc when the current ones work? I believe people has finally tired of the upgrade yearly cycle.
I would buy a new one if
1) I can get my cars fixed and get back to work
2) Still get one with Windows 7. May have to go refurbished.
Government upgrades will probably provide a floor for the big 3 who also derive income from support.
What about that market segment?
At some point the market gets saturated. I personally have four laptops in my home all with different purposes. Since they are working fine and I don’t change anything they seem to last for a long time. When one does give up the ghost I will buy a replacement but as long as they do what I want done I don’t see any reason to buy a computer.
Yet the PC manufacturers pushed for communism. They must not like making money. I hope that when this is all over investors retail control and purge most of the C-suite for the grifting, venal leftists that they are.
Why spend $1,000's for no real improvement unless you are running heavy duty programs. Day to day programs run just fine on old Laptops.
I can buy very nice Lenovo X1's and Mac Books for a few hundred dollars which are perfect for my personal and business usage.
My HP laptop has been running without a hitch since 2014-15, can’t recall exactly ... its memory is better than mine.
Nary a Mac I’ve had lasted that near that long and they cost 2-3x as much.
No Mac no more.
I’m on my third rebuild of my PC which I originally bought as a custom build. By now probably only the case and a few switches are original. Installing new components only takes a screwdriver. I’m fortunate my son also builds his own PCs mainly for gaming and I get his hand me down components. I use my PC primarily for editing digital photos and bill paying and use a tablet or phone for just about everything else.
Younger Millennials and Gen-Z see no reason to have a desktop or a laptop as they do everything with their smartphones and tablets.
And I need a new Windows 11 desktop and support for my Windows 7 system is gone.
Another part is that nowadays, a phone can do the functions of a PC, and
A wristwatch can do the functions of a phone.
The biggest part?
Inflation, looming unemployment, large amounts of personal debt, and fear of recessions along with loss of trust in government all lead to lowered spending on optional goods, especially fairly durable ones.
Most Americans under the age of 30 have grown up with a Linux-based computer on their hip or in their pocket for 16 hours of the day. They find their hand-held digital devices are all the PC they need.
It's been all laptops, iPads and iPhones since.
Multicore, fast processors starting in the early 2000’s made this inevitable. At some point, you get all the power (for most home and business and even industrial work) you need, and high enough quality and longevity in a quality computer to last 6-10 years before needing a replacement. There’s nothing special or unexpected about this being reported now. It was the same even four or five years ago now. High quality hardware and software are commodities now. That’s good for the consumer.
I’ll bet corporate related sales were down, we’re headed for/in a Biden recession.
I am using a desktop pc I put together in 2015.
I upgraded it over the years with Windows 7 then 10 64-bit and a total of 32gb of ram memory and a SSD hard drive and a big 32” monitor.
It is very fast. I do not see how much better a new pc can be if already my programs and files open quickly and webpages load fast.
I may build a new pc but only as a hobby and not a need.