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05:39 14th June 2011
PC sales are expected to be less than a year earlier, according to technology research company Gartner.
According to the company's latest forecast, PC shipments will grow 9.3 per cent this year, reaching 385 million units. This is slightly lower than Gartner's previous projection of 10.5 percent growth for 2011, the company said in a press release.
"Consumer mobile PCs are no longer driving growth, because of sharply declining consumer interest in mini-notebooks. Mini-notebook shipments have noticeably contracted over the last several quarters, and this has substantially reduced overall mobile PC unit growth," said Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner.
The expert went on to say new tablet devices like Apple's iPad have dented mobile growth. Though he explained this was more a result of consumers delaying new mobile PC purchases rather than directly replacing aging mobile PCs with media tablets.
In other IT industry news, Google's Android mobile operating system (OS) will not have outside influence in the mobile space in the same way that Nokia did with Symbian, according to Michael Morgan, senior analyst of mobile devices at market intelligence company ABI Research.
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