CEOs Whitman and Dell bullish on PC sales
4 December 2013
IDC reported Tuesday PC shipments are forecast to tank 10.1 percent in 2013, but don't tell that to Meg Whitman or Michael Dell. Both CEOs are bullish on PC sales and remain steadfast that the PC market is far from dead.
"The obituary of the PC has been written 25 times," said Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, in an interview with CRN US last month. "The term 'post-PC era' was first coined in 1999 by IBM. At the time, there were about 120 million PCs sold per year. Now there are 450 million PCs sold per year. So the post-PC era has been better for the PC than the pre-post-PC era," he said.
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