Close to 400 million PCs will be sold worldwide in the 12 months after September 2012.
Inaccurate ●●●●●
“There's going to be close to 400m PCs sold in the next year, which makes it a big market.”
- Said on
- 15 September 2012 · Interview with The Seattle Times in mid-September 2012 (exact interview date approximate), as reported by IT Brief
- Source
- Microsoft enjoying epic year · IT Brief Australia
- Should come true
- Sep 2013
- How sure they sounded
- There's going to be (stated as fact); "whether it's 405m or 395m"
- Categories
- Technology
- Importance
- 2 of 5 · A volume forecast for the PC industry around the Windows 8 launch.
Outcome
Inaccurate
Gartner reported 315.9 million PCs shipped worldwide in 2013, down 10% and the worst decline in PC market history. That is far below the "close to 400m" Ballmer forecast for the year after September 2012, and below even his 395m low end.
- https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2014-01-09-gartner-says-worldwide-pc-shipments-declined-7-percent-in-fourth-quarter-of-2013
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-09/pc-shipments-drop-6-9-percent-in-weak-holiday-shopping
History
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