U.S. PC shipments drop 7%, market isn't expected to bounce back until 2029 — price hikes and component shortages take hold as PC market declines, Omdia report suggests
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The budget sector is being squeezed the most, helping Dell emerge as the top PC vendor.
  • mrmaplebar ( mrmaplebar@fedia.io ) 
    15·
    4 months ago

    I’m surprised the drop is not a lot bigger… Who in their right mind would buy a PC right now unless they had absolutely no choice?

    What’ll get really bad is when the hardware OEMs become insolvent due to high prices killing consumer demand for their products, and then we are left with few to no options for PC parts.

    If nothing else, this could spell the end of the modular ATX/ITX PC.

  • Eternal192 ( Eternal192@anarchist.nexus ) English
    12·
    4 months ago

    I currently have an ok PC and when it inevitably breaks i’ll buy one of those old handhelds and play Tetris.

    I won’t pay 1 cent to those bastards to play on their servers, they can die and eat shit in hell.

    Bezos already showed what will happen with Luna and the other assholes will do the same if you are stupid enough to fall for that scam.

  • Gerudo ( Gerudo@lemmy.zip ) English
    5·
    4 months ago

    7% so far…

    These prices staying high will eat into people replacing old machines as the years go on. There will be PC manufacturers closing up shop before this situation even thinks about getting better.

  • 4grams ( 4grams@awful.systems ) English
    2·
    4 months ago

    I’m convinced this is all to normalize keeping your data in the cloud and other 3rd party hands. It’s hr decline of the PC market, the fact that games, movies and music no longer come on media you own, instead is now just a license to use the content…

    This is all part of the strategy of ensuring we do not own our data. They want all storage of all the data to be something we have to pay to access. They want to control everything, and make access to it a subscription.