A look at developments in the PC market in 2015 Read more »
PC Market down 3.8% in 2015
Printer sales fell 14.5%, peripherals by 12.1% in 2015
A look at printer and peripheral markets in 2015 Read more »
Mobile devices – 3% revenue growth, 6% unit decline in 2015
Some sizing of the mobile device market in 2015 Read more »
Apple – running out of new customers
Apple's revenues will decline in 2016, but it remain at the head of the industry Read more »
2016 prediction 2 – EMEA and the Americas outgrow Asia Pacific – at least in constant dollars
The slackness of the market will also be apparent in region spending growth. In particular: The Americas will outperform the others, growing by 0.5% to $2.3T; vendors will need to offer innovative products to persuade these sophisticate users to buy yet more technology EMEA will grow by 0.3% to $1.7T; […] Read more »
2016 prediction 3 – The USA grows faster than other American countries
The USA is by far the largest country market worldwide and within the Americas: in 2016 it will spend $1.7T – 28% of the world total. Growth will be 1.2% – better than other countries in the region. We need the US to grow in order to make up for […] Read more »
2016 prediction 4 – Turkey top, Russia bottom of EMEA growth (again!)
EMEA is a region full of country markets. Germany is the largest, followed by the UK. For the second year running I expect the strongest growth (3.8%) to be in Turkey and the steepest decline (-10.7%) to be in Russia. The lifting of sanctions on Iran will lead to growth […] Read more »
2016 prediction 5 – Chinese spending declines in the lacklustre Asia Pacific market
Japan and China will be the two largest IT and communications markets in Asia Pacific. For the first time in a number of years I’m not predicting that the region will outgrow the Americas and EMEA: in fact I expect we’ll see a decline in spending in most countries. Even […] Read more »
Enterprise networks up 3.7% in Q3 2015
My latest on sizes and shares in the network markets Read more »
Devaluation and the headache of assessing market growth
Some data on local v dollar growth rates by country Read more »
The ITC market falls 3.2% to $1.6T in Q3 2015
A first look at market growth in Q3 2015 Read more »
Currency consequences – the dollar keeps rising
A note of dramatic falls in international currency values against the $US Read more »
Cloud services suffer massive regional currency discrepancies
Big differences between local and $US revenue growth in Asia Pacific and EMEA cloud services Read more »
Cloud services – SaaS, IaaS and PaaS forecast
Latest forecast and market share for IaaS/PaaS, SaaS and total cloud services Read more »
ITC spending -5.5% in Q2 2015 – we’re in another downturn
Q2 results show we're already in another market downturn Read more »
Toshiba’s woes and the Japanese triple whammy
A look at how Toshiba can rescue itself from its current woes. Read more »
Mobile device revenues up 17% in Q1 2015 – Chinese suppliers surge
A forecast for mobile devices. Read more »
Dell Strategy – get ready for the ‘digital economy’, the ‘API economy’
A look at Dell, with insights from its 5th annual DAAC conference Read more »
Atos acquires Xerox’s ITO business – better times ahead for outsourcing
Economies of scale will help improve the profitability of outsourcing over the next few years Read more »
Nokia buys Alcatel Lucent for €15.6 billion, overtakes Huawei
The proposed merger will create a new number 2 in networking Read more »