Apple is the only company that managed to sell more PCs this year

A new report has revealed personal computer sales are at their lowest in seven years with Apple being the only company to sell more PCs in 2015 than 2014. The report cites the lack of hardware upgrades, free operating system upgrades and movement toward tablets and keyboard accessories as factors.

Market research firm International Data Corporation’s analysis of PC sales from 2015 show a worldwide drop of shipments of 10.6% from the fourth quarter of 2014 to the same period of 2015. The data does not include tablets or keyboard accessories (the decline would only be 5%, in this case).

The decline beat the previous record of 9.8% from 2013 and marks the first time full-year shipments have dipped below 300 million units since 2008. Apple was the only company to see any growth worldwide, shipping 6.2% more units in 2015 than in 2014. Read more...