Worldwide PC shipments totaled 63.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2023, a 0.3% increase from the fourth quarter of 2022, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. This marks the first time that quarterly shipments have increased after eight straight quarters of decline.Read More…
With shipments totaling 68.5 million units in the third quarter of 2023, the global PC market managed to outperform expectations. But that volume was still down 7.2% compared to the same quarter in 2022, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Despite the PC marketRead More…
When Apple came up with their new innovative product “iPad”, a term was popularised simultaneously, ‘Post-PC era’. With this, many people mistook it to indicate that the PC will die soon and be replaced by tablets and smartphones, but it overcame the challenges and recently witnessed its first significant increaseRead More…
After a long spell of negative growth, Gartner found the worldwide PC shipments grew for the first time in six years during the second quarter of 2018 and totaled 62.1 million units in the second quarter reflecting a 1.4 percent increase from the second quarter of 2017. All regions experienced someRead More…
Official PC shipments to Nigeria fell 57.1% year on year in 2016 to total 156,511 units, according to the latest figures compiled by International Data Corporation (IDC). This means the market has now fallen to its lowest levels since IDC started tracking it in Q1 2008, with factors such asRead More…
The East Africa PC market – comprising Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda – declined -8.6% year on year in Q4 2016, according to the latest figures compiled by International Data Corporation (IDC).Read More…
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) PC market posted its third successive quarter of year-on-year growth in Q4 2014, continuing its recovery from the seven consecutive quarterly declines it experienced leading up to Q2 2014.Read More…
