{"id":647410,"date":"2013-03-18T20:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=383390"},"modified":"2013-03-18T20:48:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:48:31","slug":"pc-shipments-could-sink-by-double-digit-percentage-in-q1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647410","title":{"rendered":"PC shipments could sink by double-digit percentage in Q1 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/18\/pc-shipment-projection-q1-2013-383390\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"531\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/lgwindows8.jpg?w=650&amp;h=531&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"PC Shipment Projection\" title=\"Windows 8 PCs\" \/><\/a><\/center>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/14\/pc-sales-decline-5-percent-291332\/\">not easy being a PC vendor right now<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24024013#.UUce0evwJJg\">latest report issued by IDC<\/a> indicates that it won&#8217;t get\u00a0easier anytime soon. In particular, IDC says that an economic slowdown in China will lead to a further erosion of PC sales in the first quarter of 2013, a trend that is particularly worrisome because China accounted for &#8220;over 21% of global shipments in 2012,&#8221; making it the world&#8217;s largest market for personal computers. Because of this, IDC analyst\u00a0Loren Loverde projects that &#8220;we could see a drop [in PC shipments] touching double-digits in the first quarter and a mid-single-digit decline in the second quarter before we see any recovery in the second half of the year.&#8221;\u00a0Loverde also thinks it will be very difficult for the PC industry to return to growth this year and that the PC industry will need to deliver &#8220;attractive new PC designs and more competitive pricing relative to tablets and other products.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/33yFgyMy7sI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not easy being a PC vendor right now\u00a0and the latest report issued by IDC indicates that it won&#8217;t get\u00a0easier anytime soon. In particular, IDC says that an economic slowdown in China will lead to a further erosion of PC sales in the first quarter of 2013, a trend that is particularly worrisome because China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}