“With the launch of the iPad 2, more consumers shift to alternative devices.”
For the first time since two years ago, shipments of PCs in the first quarter 2011 is decreased.
Lethargy PC market is influenced by the competition faced from the segment of the tablet computer, component delays caused by the earthquake Japan, as well as soaring oil and commodity prices.
“With the launch of the iPad 2 in February, more consumers shift to alternative devices, or simply refrain from buying PCs. We were concerned whether this trend will provide long-term consequences to the PC computer market or not,” said Mikako Kitagawa, an analyst from Gartner, as quoted from the site of IT World.
According to Kitagawa, now the price of cheap PCs that are no longer able to attract shoppers and stimulate growth. Gartner also said that sales of PCs still be saved on the sales in the business sector, encouraged by the cycle of rejuvenation of old computers.
As reported by the Financial Times website, Gartner’s count, there was a decrease in the volume of PC shipments by 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2011, of amounting to 85.1 million units to 84.2 million units. Though originally estimated, in the quarter on a PC will pocket a growth of 3 percent.
In fact, IDC noted that more drastic decline in the first quarter which amounted to 3.2 percent from 83.2 million units to 80.5 million units. In fact, IDC had expected growth of 1.5 would occur in this sector.
Gartner noted, despite its PC computer sales slipped to 3.4 percent of Hewlett-Packard still stay in the top PC vendors, with the number of shipments of 14.8 million units.
In the second place, Acer’s PC shipments are also affected by a decrease of 12.2 percent to 10.89 million units. Furthermore, redemptions Dell also decreased 2.2 percent to 9.98 million million units.
Lenovo Group of China was in fourth position shows the strongest growth among the top six vendors, with growth of 16.6 percent or 8.14 million units due to a more competitive price advantage.
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