{"id":650511,"date":"2013-04-04T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=414440"},"modified":"2013-04-04T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:45:10","slug":"gartner-microsoft-risks-becoming-irrelevant-if-windows-phone-tablet-efforts-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650511","title":{"rendered":"Gartner: Microsoft risks becoming irrelevant if Windows Phone, tablet efforts fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/microsoft-tablets-smartphones-414440\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/ballmer.jpg?w=650&amp;h=600&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Tablets Smartphones\" title=\"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer\" \/><\/a><\/center>In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/02\/10\/tablet-sales-expected-to-reach-248-6-million-units-by-2015-smartphones-sales-to-hit-1-billion\/\">tablet and smartphone sales have been surging<\/a> lately as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/11\/pc-q4-sales-shrink-6-4-percent-289405\/\">PC sales have started to tank<\/a>.\u00a0The latest\u00a0research from Gartner\u00a0shows that this trend won&#8217;t change anytime soon and the firm projects that PC shipments will shrink from 315 million in 2013 to 302 million in 2014, and down to just 272 million in 2017. Tablet shipments, on the other hand, are expected to explode from 197 million in 2013 to 468 million in 2017, while smartphone shipments are expected to rise from 1.9 billion in 2012 to 2.1 billion in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/microsoft-tablets-smartphones-414440\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/Mb0K3ANrhdk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, tablet and smartphone sales have been surging lately as PC sales have started to tank.\u00a0The latest\u00a0research from Gartner\u00a0shows that this trend won&#8217;t change anytime soon and the firm projects that PC shipments will shrink from 315 million in 2013 to 302 million in 2014, and down to just 272 million [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650511","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=650511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}