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Market Trends - Stats

W.W. PC Market Grows Thanks to Tablets

16 February 2011 Marco Attard Market Trends - Stats
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W.W. PC Market Grows Thanks to Tablets

Canalys reports the global PC industry shows growth of 19% in Q4 2010 over Q4 20009-- since if one counts tablets as PCs.

W. Europe's PC market shows 10.7% growth-- while C. and E. Europe show 38.4% growth.

In fact the analyst says the majority of Q4 market growth is thanks to rising tablet demand. The analyst says that while tablets are not attractive to first-time or low-income buyers, they are increasingly popular as additional computing devices.

Canalys urges vendors to recognie tablets as Continue reading...

PC Market's W. European Slight Decline

09 February 2011 Marco Attard Market Trends - Stats
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PC Market's W. European Slight Decline

Gartner reports W. Europe Q4 2010 PC shipments total 19.4m-- a 4.4% decline when compared to Q4 2009.

The analyst says the PC market continues what it calls its "downward spiral", with W. European shipments declining by 8.1% between October and end of December 2010. As PC vendors remain cautious and delay orders, mobile PC shipments in the consumer market decline by 2% in the same period.

It's clear consumer spending is shifting from PCs to other devices-- media tablets, gaming machines and e-readers. Continue reading...

ICEcat: OnLine Channel up 78%

03 February 2011 Bob Snyder Market Trends - Stats
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ICEcat: OnLine Channel up 78%

The online channel is up 78% in 2010 and is recession-proof, concludes ICEcat based on its annual tabulation of the usage of data-sheets of their open catalog project.

During 2010 ICEcat facilitated 874 million data-sheet downloads for products from 5228 different tech brands by more than 12,700 different online channel partners from 87 different countries.

The usage of data-sheets shows HP, Lenovo and Sony are the top three online channels brands of 2010, but Dell has transformed into a fast-growth Continue reading...

From Download Revenue Stream to Trickle

16 December 2010 Marco Attard Market Trends - Stats
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From Download Revenue Stream to Trickle

Digital download sales slow rapidly slow down as consumers switch to internet radio and video streaming sites, Reuters reports.

In fact, 2010's small gain in track sales (recorded as 5% on November 21st) comes from albums, according to Nielsen Soundscan. On the same day, digital album sales were up 12%-- compared to the same period in 2009's 17%.

There are only a few exceptions in Q4 to 2010's flat track sales trend-- Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" (sold 390000 digital albums and 3 million tracks Continue reading...

WW Growth of Key Products

02 December 2010 Bob Snyder Market Trends - Stats
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WW Growth of Key Products

Using IDC as a source for the statistics, here you can see mapped out from 2007 to 2012 (but excluding phones), the sales growth in key product categories.

The important trendline here, in our opinion, is the RED category of the Home Network devices. This category will also drag along other categories, e.g., Blu-ray, STB/DVR ...

In a world of devices, connectivity will be where retailers and distributors will find the better margins.

Looking at the whole, you can see how any whole store would Continue reading...

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