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UK Physical Games Market Declines 52% Year-On-Year
The gaming industry is progressively moving towards digital distribution and it appears consumers are becoming less attached to physical media. This already happened aeons ago on the PC platform and retail PC games only exist to please a small niche. Even console players who prefer to collect physical copies have seen…
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Tablet Sales Decline While Detachables Dominate The Low-Cost Market
Tablets are commonly perceived as a threat to the traditional desktop and could make laptops obsolete. The processing power of budget tablets is ample for browsing the web, writing e-mails, streaming video and other tasks the mainstream user engages in. On the other hand, tablet sales have plummeted for some…
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Worldwide PC Shipments Fell by 5.7 Percent in Q3 2016
The demise of the traditional desktop PC has been predicted for a considerable amount of time and there appears to be a steady decline which shows no signs of slowing down. The advent of tablets, mobile phones and other devices which provide a more tactile user experience pose a threat…
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Microsoft Adds Decline Windows 10 Button Following Lawsuit
Microsoft is set to introduce a decline button to its Get Windows 10 hassleware pop-up window, and not before time. Since May 2015, Microsoft has become increasingly pushy in its efforts to persuade Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to upgrade to its new operating system, to the point where…
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Windows Phone Market Share Falls
Microsoft’s entry into the smartphone market has been extremely challenging due to the popularity of Android handsets, and Apple’s loyal user base. Despite the company’s best efforts to hone a user-friendly operating system, it’s really struggled to make an impact. Unfortunately, Windows Phone users are a niche, and many app…
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2015 Saw Biggest Ever Decline in PC Sales
PC sales in 2015 were the lowest since 2008 – shipping below 300 million units – and the on-year decline of 10.6% is the largest decline ever experienced, beating a previous drop of 9.8% in 2013, IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker announced in a press release on DigiTimes. “The PC…
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Sony Slashes TV and Smartphone Lines
Reuters reports that Sony is to cut its losses and slim down its product line. Sony has been losing money in the last few years, largely due to the decline of its TV and smartphone businesses – two businesses that have suffered thanks to Samsung and Apple’s success. They say that…
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Sales Down 40 Percent
A report in The Wall Street Journal says that sales of Samsung’s Galaxy S5 flagship phone were down 40 percent in its first 3 months on sale. The report suggests that the device only sold 12 million in those first few months – that’s down 4 million from the Galaxy…
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Mobile Phones Dominate Tablet Sales, Here’s a Graph to Prove It
“The future is phones” – in this article we’ll go over some of the mobile device market changes including the rise of smart phones, app installations and the apparent demise of the tablet. Smart phone sales and usage continue to rise year on year, with 2017 expecting to see a…
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Apple’s iPad Mini Sales are Performing Poorly
Apple’s iPad sales have reportedly declined now for the third consecutive quarter, seeing the iPad mini 3 in particular produce a poor sales effort across the globe. Given the focus on larger smart phone screens and better big-tablet technology, does the iPad mini have a place in the market? Sales…
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Chinese Mobile Market Experiences a “Significant Decline”
Last month it was reported that the Chinese mobile phone market is experiencing an unprecedented “significant decline” given Octobers continuation of lackluster results. During October, smart phone total shipment numbers reached 28,194,000 which is a decrease of 4.4 percent when compared to last years results. These figures are a further 6.5…
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Sony’s PlayStation Reported to Outsell Microsoft’s Xbox by 3:1
Sony’s first quarter 2014 financial report is looking very good for the company, having posted a net income of $261 million. The company is said to have sold 3.5 million PS4 and PS3 consoles, a 2.4 million increase compared to the Q1 2013 statistics. Aside from PS3 and PS4 sales,…
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Facebook To Lose 80% Of Users By 2017 According To Recent Studies
Facebook has grown to be one of the most appreciated social media platform on the internet. Since its “birth” in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has been leading the social platform down the road of success, having an estimated value of $142 billion to this…
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