IDC says fourth-quarter PC shipments declined 10.6% year-on-year
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IDC has released its PC shipment figures for the fourth quarter of 2015, and the numbers continue to shrink. The research firm says worldwide PC shipments totalled 71.9 million units in the final quarter of last year, a decline of 10.9% compared to the same time in 2014. IDC says that's the largest year-on-year decline it's ever recorded, and it also says 2015 is the first year the industry shipped fewer than 300 million units since 2008.
The research firm thinks the continuing decline in the marketplace can be blamed on longer PC lifecycles and the rise of smartphones and tablets, even as sales growth in mobile devices has also slowed. IDC also believes the end of Windows XP support in 2014 may have prompted many to upgrade their ...