Augurers at Gartner have been shuffling their tarot decks and consulted the entrails of various livestock and reached the conclusion that worldwide PC shipments will fall by almost 10 percent in 2022
The PC market is expected to experience the steepest decline of all device segments this year, the researcher says, with the EMEA PC market forecast to record a 14 percent decline in 2022 because of a lack of consumer PC demand.
This was caused by Tsar Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, price increases and unavailability of products due to lockdowns in China are significantly impacting consumer demand in the region.
Gartner senior director analyst Ranjit Atwal said: “A perfect storm of geopolitics upheaval, high inflation, currency fluctuations and supply chain disruptions have lowered business and consumer demand for devices across the world and is set to impact the PC market the hardest in 2022.”
“Consumer PC demand is on pace to decline 13.1 percent in 2022 and will plummet much faster than business PC demand, which is expected to decline 7.2 percent year over year.”
Global shipments of devices (PCs, tablets and mobile phones) should decline 7.6 percent in 2022, with Greater China and Eastern Europe including Eurasia recording double-digit declines.
Tablet sales are forecast to fall nine percent, while mobile phone shipments are predicted to fall by 7.1 percent.
