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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
as for pcs (copied from posts i made at Engadget)
according to the charts "unit shipments are in thousands" which means these are actually millions
lenovo q1 11,700 lenovo q2 12,619
hp q1 11,997 hp q2 12,378
dell q1 9,010, dell q2 9,230
acer q1 6,150 acer q2 6,22
asus q1 4,363 asus q2 4,590
over all declining market? sure but its the "off " brands that are having the worst of it
33,075 in q1 and 30,589 in q2
Above is worldwide figure but US PC sales are up q1 - q2 also
Q1 US Total 14,197
Q2 US Total 15,650
sources
Q2 charts here
Q1 charts here |
Those last two posts (posts not referring to just the links above, i know the nit pickers lurk
) were great, thanks. Shows that the market is not shrinking really just not currently increasing as once upon a time. Made even more obvious in the face of more and more computing options which did not exist even a scant decade ago. To my eye the market seems very stable and fine, just at a lower growth rate which seems logical and inevitable over time.
Have you noticed that in the way business are run today there is a tendency to report a failure to accelerate growth year to year, or year over year as most tend to state it, is reported as LOSING money? A company can still be making profit and even worse still be growing but just not growing with the accelerated growth rate of the previous year. Basically meaning that in shareholder reports and quarterly reports making a profit and even profit combined with growth are no viewed as a success anymore. Today they expect the company to constantly accelerate that growth rate.
How can companies expect to sustain that with a finite number of customers? I guess they expect to move into emerging markets to sustain the acceleration but that still is finite. Odd that profit or even profit that is still growing though lower though at a lower rate the the previous quarter or year is satisfactory. The only way I can see this as possible, in the short term, is via a model with constantly accelerating prices where the mark-up is also accelerating. In my thinking this is auto-inflationary, especially in the eye of ever dwindling wages of today.