(This is in response to something Christian said at Flock in the Fedora Workstation talk. I was trying to send it just to him, but apparently, I fail at that. But, hey, it's actually nothing secret and generally relevant, so, here you go.) On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 08:24:20AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > The 305million you're quoting comes from last year's Gartner report, where > they give that big number, but it's down 10% from the prior year and they > predicted another 10% fall for this year. > > But check out this updated report from last month: > <http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2791017> Here, they break out > traditional PCs from "ultramobiles and premium", and the traditional PC is > falling but the latter category is on the rise. They follow this up with > <http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2793921>, which is were I think we find > the great new quote: > > The PC market's installed based has been declining as buyers switched to > tablets and smartphones for entertainment and social media consumption. > The 2Q14 results suggest that the consumer installed base restructuring > peaked during 2013. We are seeing a slowdown in premium tablet sales, > which have already penetrated a large number of households. PCs are now > growing off a smaller installed base of newer devices, with more engaged > users. > > I think it's the "smaller installed base of more engaged users" is what's > really exciting for us. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
