PC Market In Decline, Shipments Dropped To 10-Year Low

It would seem that the slow decline of the PC market is still well on its way to dipping to ever lower figures, with shipments for Q2 putting the industry at its lowest in 10 years. A lot of this has to do with people no longer using computers for connecting to the internet and with the growing popularity of mobile devices. Among the hardest hit include Apple, with MacBook shipments a particularly bad slump.

As CNET notes, practically ever PC company felt the impact of the shipment decline. Although HP seems to have clinched the throne for the highest in terms of the overall number of units shipped, it’s likely that the company is not in a celebratory mood. For Q2 of 2017, companies only shipped about 61.9 million units. That’s 4.3 percent drop from the previous year.

Such a figure might not seem all that much, but when looking at the slump year-over-year, it’s easy to see how much the PC market is hurting. This data comes via Gartner, a research and analytics firm.

According to the company, a lot of the blame for the lower number of PC shipped can be placed on the higher prices. These prices are due to the supply shortages that seem to besiege practically every tech firm, these days. One of Gartner’s principal analyst, Mikako Kitagawa said as much in a statement.

"The approach to higher component costs varied by vendor," the statement reads. "Some decided to absorb the component price hike without raising the final price of their devices, while other vendors transferred the costs to the end-user price."

While HP is currently enjoying about 20 percent of the market shipments, Apple is on the opposite bank. Its supply of Mac units dropped by 9.6 percent, Business Insider reports. Of course, the data presented are still subject to some changes once more information comes to light. Who knows, maybe Apple will come out ahead.