{"id":742313,"date":"2013-03-18T20:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=383390"},"modified":"2013-03-18T20:48:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:48:31","slug":"pc-shipments-could-sink-by-double-digit-percentage-in-q1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/742313","title":{"rendered":"PC shipments could sink by double-digit percentage in Q1 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/18\/pc-shipment-projection-q1-2013-383390\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"531\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/lgwindows8.jpg?w=650&#038;h=531&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C531\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"PC Shipment Projection\" title=\"Windows 8 PCs\" \/><\/a><\/center>It's <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/14\/pc-sales-decline-5-percent-291332\/\">not easy being a PC vendor right now<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24024013#.UUce0evwJJg\">latest report issued by IDC<\/a> indicates that it won't get\u00a0easier anytime soon. In particular, IDC says that an economic slowdown in China will lead to a further erosion of PC sales in the first quarter of 2013, a trend that is particularly worrisome because China accounted for \"over 21% of global shipments in 2012,\" making it the world's largest market for personal computers. Because of this, IDC analyst\u00a0Loren Loverde projects that \"we could see a drop [in PC shipments] touching double-digits in the first quarter and a mid-single-digit decline in the second quarter before we see any recovery in the second half of the year.\"\u00a0Loverde also thinks it will be very difficult for the PC industry to return to growth this year and that the PC industry will need to deliver \"attractive new PC designs and more competitive pricing relative to tablets and other products.\"<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/33yFgyMy7sI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not easy being a PC vendor right now\u00a0and the latest report issued by IDC indicates that it won&#8217;t get\u00a0easier anytime soon. In particular, IDC says that an economic slowdown in China will lead to a further erosion of PC sales in the first quarter of 2013, a trend that is particularly worrisome because China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12074],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-376N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}