Falling by Digital Wayside

This typical computing setup may soon go the way of the teletype.
This typical computing setup may soon go the way of the teletype.

 

Sales of desktop PCs are falling as sales of notebook and tablet PCs continue to rise.  

The increasing popularity of notebook and tablet PCs is reciprocally affecting the market share of traditional desktop PCs. The market share of PCs has dropped below 30 percent.

Emart, a huge domestic electronics retailer, analyzed the sales of computers up to January 9, and came up with a result that reflected the share of desktops, dropping to 26.6 percent from 2012’s 34.2 percent.   

During the same period, notebook sales have increased from 58.8 percent to 63.2 percent, and tablet PCs have seen a share increase from 7 percent from the year before to 10.2 percent this year, for the first time reaching the two-digit mark.

HI-mart, another electronics retailer, also reported that the share of desktops sold has fallen from 40 percent in 2011 to 32 percent in 2012, then again to 28 percent in 2013.  

Part of this stems from the relative small difference of function capacity between PCs and notebooks, which has become increasingly powerful, rivaling that of a desktop PC.

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