9: Fish Bicycle Scenario
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2013
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
- Why are PC sales down?
- Why and when people have bought new PCs in the past.
- Forgoing or neglecting PCs today.
- PCs in businesses.
- Apple and IT departments.
- Last decade's Tablet PCs.
- The outlook for Windows 8 tablets in businesses.
- What will change if Microsoft Office is released for iOS?
- What AirPrint and black CD-Rs have in common.
- Still using (and abusing) Jonathan Mann's awesome ending song. Follow him and check out his other songs on YouTube.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So it's, what are we talking about tonight? |
| 0:02.1 | I think it was actually kind of a slow week in tech news. |
| 0:05.4 | It was. |
| 0:07.0 | I think one thing I definitely did want to talk about though, |
| 0:10.3 | and I probably should have read more about it |
| 0:11.7 | beforehand, but oh well, is this IDC PC sales |
| 0:16.7 | are doomed to report? |
| 0:18.9 | And do we, if you know the specifics of it, |
| 0:21.4 | I know the gist of it is that PC sales are way, way down. |
| 0:25.0 | What's that way? |
| 0:26.0 | It's like 14% or something, right? |
| 0:27.3 | But isn't that like the biggest drop in a decade? |
| 0:29.5 | Yeah, but only because it was an industry that was always |
| 0:31.9 | growing like every year, you sold a little bit more. |
| 0:34.0 | And then it's just like not just a slowing growth, |
| 0:37.9 | but a reversal now. |
| 0:39.4 | Or I don't even know if it's a reversal. |
| 0:40.7 | See, none of us read enough about this. |
| 0:42.0 | But anyway, it's 14%, it's not like a 90% drop or 50%. |
| 0:46.0 | It's 14%, but people freak out about it. |
| 0:48.4 | I mean, if you were to graph all these numbers, |
| 0:51.0 | I think it would look like, oh, well, it's clear that growth |
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