PC demand growth has waned over the past year as more consumers flock to ultraportable and
increasingly powerful tablets and smartphones for basic computing.
Not exact matches
They have become
increasingly powerful, and we have seen a blurring of the line between
tablets, smartphones and laptops.
With increasing competition from
powerful, multifunctional and
increasingly affordable Android
tablets like the Nexus 7, hybrid eReaders like the Kobo Arc and the Kinde Fire are a tough sell since they are readers with coloured screens and offer limited access to the Android ecosystem via a curated (albeit greatly reduced in number) app store.
The issue is not so much the hardware — or even the cost — but rather our time being divided between
increasingly powerful phones,
tablets, laptops, and even our TVs.
Thanks to
increasingly powerful smartphones (and, to a lesser extent,
tablets), the consumer PC market has shrunk, perhaps irreversibly.