{"id":107843,"date":"2016-10-12T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T08:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=107843"},"modified":"2016-10-12T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T08:45:17","slug":"the-pc-industry-has-been-steadily-declining-for-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/107843-the-pc-industry-has-been-steadily-declining-for-two-years","title":{"rendered":"The PC industry has been steadily declining for two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PC industry has shown a decline in shipments for eight consecutive quarters, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20161011006705\/en\/Gartner-Worldwide-PC-Shipments-Declined-5.7-Percent\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>research by\u00a0Gartner<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide PC shipments fell 5.7% in the third quarter of 2016 to 68.9 million units, stated the research, marking two years of consistent drops and the longest decline the history of the PC market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PC is not a high-priority device for the majority of consumers, so they do not feel the need to upgrade their PCs as often as they used to,\u201d said\u00a0Gartner.<\/p>\n<p>This was attributed to improvements in the capabilities of smartphones and the continued use of tablets as a laptop replacement.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/182644-the-pc-industry-is-in-a-two-year-downslide.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to This is the average gaming PC according to Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/107529-this-is-the-average-gaming-pc-according-to-steam.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is the average gaming PC according to Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PC industry has shown a decline in shipments for eight consecutive quarters, according to research by Gartner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":105621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,7],"tags":[31,22731,22729,2664,17676,15397],"class_list":["post-107843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-decline","tag-downslide","tag-gaming","tag-market","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107845,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107843\/revisions\/107845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}