Sentences with phrase «pc sales»

For years, in no small part due to the downhill trend of PC sales, analysts and journalists have been declaring the PC to be dead.

It's the gradual but seemingly firm shift in consumer preference that should be held responsible for the decline in PC sales.

It's faced changed as PC sales have declined, in the shift to console development and in the more recent switch to mobile, but has kept up with change.

While PC sales remain largely stagnant, the tablet market has grown by leaps and bounds.

As for PC sales outside of our borders, the outlook is still pretty grim.

However, the numbers make one thing clear: people are still spending plenty of money — and time — on PC games, even if overall PC sales are down.

Laptop and desktop sales may have started to decline in recent years, with tablet sales expanding to fill the gap, but gaming PC sales have actually increased.

The firm expects PC sales to fall 4.4 percent this year.

At the same time, PC sales continue to decline.

In many ways, it is the most inspiring desktop computer to launch at a time when PC sales are struggling for the fifth straight year.

This rise is expected to fill the void created by the shrinking PC sales, at least to some extent, which has been steadily declining since the advent of the tablet device.

Both firms, however, found PC sales to be weak.

While the company has been tied to PC sales decades, this business model is dead already.

This is probably why investors still think this tech giant is all about PC sales.

With «PC sales constantly dropping,» he adds, the remaining group of dedicated PC gamers «deserve» games that have been crafted specifically for them.

Is this why PC sales have been decreasing while smartphone sales have been increasing for five years?

It's official — there is no way things can get worse for PC sales.

The poor numbers — some analysts predict a 5 % year - over-year drop in PC sales — have made the stock cheap.

Laptop and desktop sales may have started to decline in recent years, with tablet sales expanding to fill the gap, but gaming PC sales have actually increased.

During 2010, Apple sold 14.8 million iPads worldwide, representing 75 percent of tablet PC sales at the end of 2010.

Sony announced that it would sell off its VAIO PC business first, citing declining PC sales as the reason behind the move.

Tablets, smartphones and even Macintosh computers are eating away at PC sales, with the primary buyers of Windows - based computers being businesses.

Windows 8, of course, is competing in a vastly different world than did Vista, with slumping PC sales prominent, caused in part by a desertion of dollars to tablets, where the operating system — and its limited - feature sibling, Windows RT — has yet to make much headway.

That's not only more than all the Android tablets put together but also eclipses the sales total PC sales of bigwigs such as Dell, HP or Lenovo.

With Windows PC sales in free - fall as tablet sales soar, the big - name PC makers are desperately trying to woo customers back from their iPads and Android slates.

I think the assumption is that MSFT is dying out with slowing PC sales and all that, but it's just not true.

Dell was a pioneer in the direct - to - consumer computer market and a one - time leader in global PC sales.

Not that Apple's clout is diminishing — the company just reported record sales of the iPad that is not only far better than all other tablets put together but also safely eclipses the total worldwide PC sales of some of the biggest names in the computing industry — but its that the courts may finally be waking up to the fact that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is as much iPad looking than most other tablets currently available in the market.

Google believes that tablet sales will overtake PC sales by years end, so they are clearly going to put some marketing muscle behind the new Nexus 7 device.

It shows that annual mobile unit sales overtook PC sales after 2011 and now has left them far behind.

The drop off is bad news for PC makers like Dell, HP (hpq), and Lenovo (lnvgy), which are already reeling from years of weak PC sales.

Last year, the IDC reported that PC sales fell by 10 %.

Ballmer credited Windows 7, a highlight of his 2009 CES keynote, with boosting PC sales during the 2009 holiday season, which were 50 percent above 2008 holiday season sales.

Though PC sales have decreased, there are still hopes for PC in Business enterprises so this up - gradation may be fruitful for Apple.

Even as the peak of yearly PC sales may very well be behind us, Opera believes there's still a need for further improvement in web browsers on the desktop front.

For instance, super-powerful smartphones or iPod touch - like devices could eventually disrupt PC sales.

According to Yankee Group, tablet sales will surpass PC sales by 2016 giving tablets a strong role in the enterprise but not killing off the desktop device.

It is important to remember that «The Division» had a PC release as well and therefore I predict it unlikely to have sold more than Destiny did at retail in its first month due to the simple reason that The NPD Group do not track digital PC sales in their retail sales report.

One of the biggest changes that's taken place is the shift from the desktop to mobile devices; no secret there of course, as tablet sales are growing 52 percent faster than PC sales ever did.

HP chief financial officer Cathie Lesjak said that one of the reasons HP is projecting a lower fourth quarter earnings despite PC sales somewhat stabilizing in its recent quarter was because the company is investing a lot of money in lifting sales of its higher - end printers.

The company has been talking about engineering a strategic shift away from consumer PC sales — which still account for 70 % of its revenue — and toward business clients, as IBM has done over the past decade.