The first quarter of 2013 saw the biggest drop in shipments from personal-computer makers since 1994, and tablet makers like Apple are laughing all the way to the bank. As Quartz’s Christopher Mims explained a few months ago:
The first quarter of 2013 saw the biggest drop in shipments from personal-computer makers since 1994, and tablet makers like Apple $AAPL are laughing all the way to the bank. As Quartz’s Christopher Mims explained a few months ago:
For everything from browsing the web to acting as a cash register, a tablet is sufficient and in some cases superior at performing the jobs that we used to rely on PCs to do, and tablets are PC sales. By 2016, there will be 750 million tablets in use worldwide. Of those, 375 million tablets will be sold that year alone, and businesses will buy a third of them, , an analyst at technology research firm Forrester. In the education sector, sales of iPads are PCs. A new by Forrester found that “13% of tablet owners said they bought their tablet instead of a laptop; 18% say they’ll wait longer to buy their next laptop and 14% say they won’t buy a new laptop ever.”
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Now the sales data are reflecting PC makers’ worst fears. And IDC, the research company monitoring the shipment data, blames Microsoft $MSFT’s Windows 8, too, for daunting users with an unfamiliar interface. AP Photo by Koji Sasahara
Correction: An earlier version of this article said the drop in shipments was for the first quarter of 2012 instead of 2013.
