Shanghai surprise? Another analyst sees historic PC decline

More bad news on the PC shipments, with market intel firm Counterpoint Research showing a historic year-on-year decline that echoed Gartner's estimations earlier this month. The global shipments fell 11.1 percent year-on-year in Q2 2022 to 71.2 million units, a number slightly below that of pre-pandemic Q4 2019. Consumer PC …

[Tom66]

Infinite growth on a finite planet isn't sustainable. It's fine if shipments are down now and then.

[3arn0wl]

Infinite growth on a finite planet isn't sustainable

:) I couldn't agree more.

We ought not to be surprised that market saturation leads to less demand, and that consequently fewer units will be shipped.

I hope the likes of Framework, Shift and Fairphone prosper, and lead the way : things should be made better, and designed to be repairable and upgradable.

Not the best of timing from Arm though - finally breaking into high end consumer computing just as interest in it peaks. I wonder what potential investors will think of that?

[3arn0wl]

Note to self

I see that Samsung and iFixit are collaborating to make Samsung devices repairable. Let's hope that that leads to a better designs ethos going forward, to make them even more so.

https://www.techspot.com/news/95501-samsung-teams-ifixit-launch-self-repair-program-galaxy.html

[Anonymous Coward]

Wellllll

It would be fine if we hadn't built our entire society on the premise that there has to be perpetual growth.

Even the Romans realised this. Admittedly too late.

[John 104]

I'm doing my part! Bought two new laptops this year. It was time for a refresh for myself, and the kid got one as a graduation present. Both HPs. You're welcome.