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Research Firm IDC Outlook for Sales in 2015
« on: March 13, 2015, 08:42:49 PM »
The story is carried by AP and ABC and others.
Research Firm IDC  Outlook for  Sales in 2015
The topic compares sales of desktop units to portable devices. What these devices have in common is they can 'connect' with the World Wide Web.

But overall growth is slowing down. This shouldn't be a surprise.  There are now more mobile devices in the world than people. Most of these have some ability to connect with services other than t telephone.
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IDC predicts desktop PC shipments will drop 6.2 percent and laptop shipments will fall 3.9 percent this year.
Earlier Thursday Intel cut its first-quarter revenue forecast, partly because demand for business desktop PCs was weaker than it expected.
Here are other headlines about down sales.
U.S. TV sales shrink nearly 10% | Computerworld
Factory Orders Rise, Auto Sales Down | ABC News
Sears Crucial Appliance Sales Erode - WSJ
US Motorcycle Q1 2014 Sales Flatlined - Asphalt & Rubber
Northeast Drags Down New Home Sales | Mortgage News Daily

My point is that one can not expect growth to just continue endlessly.
BTW: Sales of 16 mm movies cameras are way down. So are brass telegraph keys.   ;D