Felix Richter writes: \u00a0Worldwide PC shipments hit an eight-year low in 2015 after declining for the fourth consecutive year.<\/p>\n
Global shipments dropped by 8 percent to 289 million in 2015, the lowest it’s been since 2007.<\/p>\n
The decline of the PC industry started in 2012, around the time when tablet sales really took off. After a brief respite in 2014, when PC sales were virtually flat thanks to the end of official support for the popular WIndows XP\u00a0and the subsequent upgrade cycle, the market’s decline re-accelerated in 2015 despite the release of Windows 10 in July.<\/p>\n
Gartner attributes the weak market performance at least partially to currency effects, which negatively affected sales in EMEA, Japan and Latin America. However, the analysts also see a structural change happening that will lead to fewer people using PCs over the next few years.<\/p>\n
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