> The industry is clearly in decline by every accepted measure
Feel free to find data showing "clear decline". I'm saying I'm not convinced. It's about as much in decline as anything else that's needed in every life : cars, fridges, stoves... PCs are now commodities, what's the big news ? This means low profit margins, and this means low renewal cycles too except for niche uses. Yet we aren't going to see the sales drop by 50% anytime soon.
Oh if you don't believe it, I don't care. It's only my concern that you not make a dumb case against the word "decline" based on a common sense parsing.
Yet we aren't going to see the sales drop by 50% anytime soon.
That's just one article. You can try googling "laptop sales year over year" and seeing what comes back. Nobody who knows anything denies that the industry is in decline.
But then again, HN's cadre of Ron Paul voters are known to deny basic economic realities based purely on wishful thinking, so you're hardly alone.
Feel free to find data showing "clear decline". I'm saying I'm not convinced. It's about as much in decline as anything else that's needed in every life : cars, fridges, stoves... PCs are now commodities, what's the big news ? This means low profit margins, and this means low renewal cycles too except for niche uses. Yet we aren't going to see the sales drop by 50% anytime soon.