George Shiffler
George Shiffler
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Vendors are likely to see a fundamental shift in the market as they come to grips with the steep decline in mature-market desk-based growth and are forced to seek growth in other market segments.
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Initiatives like those done at Intel could ease the constraint of some barriers. But it's still a slow process.
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End-user concerns about availability and value of these new technologies could result in some buyers holding off PC purchases until later in 2006 or beyond.
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PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.
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The quest for growth is forcing vendors to test the limits of PC price elasticity. The whole dynamic is compounded by the fact that buyers have increasingly come to expect sharp price declines.