Middle East & Africa PC Market Suffers Steepest Ever Decline in Shipments
March 29, 2016 | IDCEstimated reading time: 3 minutes
Similar to IDC’s previous forecasts, there will continue to be a gradual shift in the weight of demand from consumers to the commercial segment as a growing proportion of home users switch from PCs to tablets and smartphones while commercial end users maintain a greater loyalty to PCs. As a result, commercial demand for PCs in the region is expected to surpass that stemming from home users by the year 2017.
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