Are PC’s dying too? Worldwide PC shipments totaled 55.2 million units in the first quarter of 2023, a 30% decrease from the first quarter of 2022, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc.Apr 11, 2023 How about laptops? Laptops (a category that excludes tablets) were the worst hit, marking a 34% Y-o-Y drop, per Canalys. Desktops suffered too — but fared slightly better, with a 28% decline. As vendors go, both IDC and Canalys have Apple suffering the largest drop, at 40.5 and 45.5%, respectively.Apr 10, 2023
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, May 20, 2023, 11:17 AM, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote: Alas, this is patently false. The number of MIPS may be growing, but the number of boxes, shops, and applications is clearly dropping. When was the last time a new mainframe customer joined this list? Why are the parking lot and floor in POK empty all the time? I sure wish it wasn't so, but all the real-world evidence says it is, alas. Asserting otherwise is wishful thinking unsupported by the evidence. A better use of energy is looking for ways to keep the platform vibrant. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
