This article appeared in the September issue of CRN magazine as part of the main feature "Signs of life".
According to a speech by Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and head of Dell’s PC business, at the Dell Annual Analyst Conference
10. Just 315 million PCs were sold last year.
9. In this room, only nine out of 10 people have a PC. The 10th person probably has three.
8. 68 percent of consumers use PCs to shop on Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday is not much to crow about.
7. PCs are used by only 100 percent of Fortune 500 companies.
6. Excel and smartphones are a match made in heaven.
5. Of the 1.2 billion ATMs around the world, just 1.2 billion of them are using a PC.
4. Nearly all consumers who own a personal computer use it at least once a day. Which is more often than they bathe.
3. Scientists, government employees, engineers, architects, and the entire film industry gave up PCs in favour of ‘story time’.
2. Since the ‘post-PC era’ began in 1999, only 3.58 billion PCs have been sold. Pundits may have meant the ‘post-typewriter era’.
1. Mainframes and minicomputers are totally making a comeback.
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