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PC shipments doom and gloom
THE PROPHESY division of analyst outfit Gartner has warned that the world-wide PC industry will experience its sharpest decline in its history this year.
Huddled in a darkened room, the analysts apparently turned over over the Tarot card "The Tower" and thus proclaimed that PC shipments are expected to decline 11.9 percent to 257 million units in 2009.
The worst period in IT history thus far was 2001, when unit shipments dropped 3.2 per cent. But this year is going to be worse, woe, and woe tr3, spake the Big G.
They didn't have to be Mystic Meg to work that one out.
Semiconductor sales have crashed in the last year according to figures the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
The SIA reported that sales in January fell 28.8 per cent compared to January last year. This follows a dismal December where sales fell 11.9 per cent on the year.
Sales fell fastest in Europe, which saw falls of over a third. Japan was the best performing region, with sales down 21.2 per cent.
Gartner is predicting that emerging markets will also suffer "unprecedented" slowdowns as the consumers will be much slower to upgrade.
The only place of happiness will be mobile PC shipments are expected to grow,.
Gartner said that Asus had not come up with the eeeebygum computer and been copied by the rest, PC companies would be in a very dark place right now, gnashing their teeth.
But even these are not enough to prevent the market's steep decline, spake Gartner.
And low there will be a great rubbing of parts in the firmament, and a Mac fanboy shall want for his brother's PC , and a duck will.... [that is enough prophecy. Ed] µ
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WHOOSH!
Memo to world: We are in a worldwide economic depression, you just don't know it yet.
... all the hype and glitter spewed out but this site and others is not enough to convince people they need dozen core processors, 27 TB drives, new cases to replace ones not worn out, and all the other options that are always a must have?
Maybe people have finally realized they just don't need the latest new-fangled things.
Techy World better be looking at the sudden "success" of GM and other big care makers. You just don't need a new $40,000 vehicle every two years to run around town and apparently the gamer's appetite for the fastest and biggest is just not pulling the load. Not that it ever did.
"People are often surprised to learn that Tarot cards were originally invented for playing games, that such games are still widespread and popular in continental Europe, and that the employment of tarots for divination and fortune-telling is a relatively recent perversion of their proper use, dating only from the eighteenth century.”(The Penguin Encyclopedia of Card Games, by David Parlett)
It would be a good thing if the media would stop treating tarot cards as if they were meant to be used for prediction. They were really made for card games!