The downturn in the personal computer industry may be ready to reach rock bottom, where it could stabilize even as cheap tablets stay hot, an analyst said today.
In a piece published earlier this week on Techpinions (subscription required), Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies theorized that there are, in fact, "glimmers of hope" for the PC business.
"It appears the PC market is stabilizing in the U.S., meaning that quarterly negative growth is lessening," Bajarin wrote. "What [the data] also shows is that tablet growth is also slowing in the U.S."
Bajarin cited numbers from industry researcher IDC and financial firm Morgan Stanley, figures which do show a flattening of the once dramatic growth gains by tablets and of the ongoing PC shipment contraction.
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