{"id":70599,"date":"2014-10-09T07:41:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T05:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=70599"},"modified":"2014-10-09T07:41:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T05:41:20","slug":"pc-market-continues-to-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/70599\/pc-market-continues-to-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"PC market continues to decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personal computer shipments fell 1.7 percent in the July to September period from a year ago, tech research firm IDC said on Wednesday, marking the 10th straight quarter of declines but beating IDC&#8217;s forecast of a 4.1 percent drop.<\/p>\n<p>Gartner, a rival research firm, put the decline at 0.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>IDC&#8217;s 1.7 percent decrease matches the April to June quarter, equaling the smallest decline since PC shipments started tumbling in early 2012 as sales of netbooks collapsed in the face of new competition from tablets.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and European shipments increased, boosted by companies buying PCs in bulk, which helped the top three PC makers Lenovo , Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell make market share gains. But shipments in Asia, the world&#8217;s biggest computer market, continued to decline, offsetting the gains in other areas.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the PC market<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Surprise PC sales growth from HP\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/66386\/surprise-pc-sales-growth-from-hp\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Surprise PC sales growth from HP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to PC market struggles to find stability\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/62691\/pc-market-struggles-to-find-stability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">PC market struggles to find stability<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Where to from here for the PC market?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/59879\/where-to-from-here-for-the-pc-market\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Where to from here for the PC market?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal computer shipments fell 1.7 percent in the July to September period from a year ago, tech research firm IDC said on Wednesday, marking the 10th straight quarter of declines but beating IDC&#8217;s forecast of a 4.1 percent drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":47965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,625,3294],"class_list":["post-70599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-idc","tag-pc-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70611,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70599\/revisions\/70611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}