{"id":13764,"date":"2015-03-18T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13764"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:11","slug":"no-really-the-pc-is-dying-and-its-not-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/no-really-the-pc-is-dying-and-its-not-coming-back","title":{"rendered":"No, Really, the PC Is Dying and It\u2019s Not Coming Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"link-underline-sm marg-r-sm\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/davey-alba\/\" rel=\"author\">Davey Alba<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Wired<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span class=\"lede\">A little while <\/span>back, we started to hear a few voices speaking up against the drumbeat of doom. No, PCs weren\u2019t dead. They were maybe even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirelessweek.com\/articles\/2015\/01\/ces-proves-pc-not-dead-yet\">coming back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n<p>Market research outfit IDC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25483715\">has revised its prediction<\/a> of PC shipments in 2015 downward. It\u2019s projecting a drop of nearly 5 percent this year, worse than its earlier forecast of a 3.3 percent decline. In all, IDC expects 293.1 million PC units to ship this year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/03\/no-really-pc-dying-not-coming-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davey Alba \u2014 Wired A little while back, we started to hear a few voices speaking up against the drumbeat of doom. No, PCs weren\u2019t dead. They were maybe even coming back. Well, they\u2019re not. Market research outfit IDC has revised its prediction of PC shipments in 2015 downward. It\u2019s projecting a drop of nearly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64800,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764\/revisions\/64800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}