![]() Price and profit fallsĪverage per-PC profit for the five largest PC manufacturers, with trend line. ![]() Analysis by the Guardian suggests that as well as falling sales, the biggest PC manufacturers now have to contend with falling prices and dwindling margins on the equipment they sell. The situation is a long way from the boom times of the late 1990s, which saw 20%-plus quarterly growth.Īnd it's not only growth that's fallen. The PC business is in a slump which has seen year-on-year shipments (and so sales) of Windows PCs fall for five (imminently, six) quarters in a row, after seven quarters where they barely grew by more than 2%. LG has always been a bit player in the PC market, with shipments of at best a few million PCs per year - in a market where the largest companies would expect to shift 10 times more.Īs one unnamed LG employee told the Korean Times, exiting the PC business makes sense: "it doesn't make sense to put more resources into the money-losing business." ![]() The news that LG is considering quitting the traditional Windows PC business isn't surprising. ![]()
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