We are already living in the post-PC era that was propelled forward by the iPad's entry into our daily lives. Windows 8 failed to deliver drastic changes and give a new breath to the PC market that it so needed, while many manufacturers have begun to design copies of Apple's MacBook Pro and Air, pushing the audience further away with this idea instead of encouraging them to buy.
Steve Jobs once again proves that he was ahead of his time when he said that PCs would soon take serious hits from the iPad and, more generally, from tablets.
Although there are hopes that desktop computer sales will rebound in the second half of this year, so far things look very bad. New research by IHS iSuppli finds that ultimately the situation may be worse than initially estimated.
Asian manufacturers had the lowest orders of the last three years from customers such as Apple and Hewlett-Packard. Overall iSuppli predicts that laptop sales were down 17% compared to the previous quarter of 2013, and 4 to 5% worse than the company originally forecast.
However, not everything is bleak, iSuppli believes that PC sales will rise in the second half of the year “when ultra-thin PCs drop in price and enter the availability chain together with computers with Intel’s new processors.”
