Comments from our users:
lordraiden007 - "In my experience the sales are only really decreasing with brand new hardware. Older PC hardware (since about 8th gen or so) is more than enough for most uses even at the bottom SKUs. You only really need new and higher priced items if you do specific tasks like gaming, some kind of media development, large scale spreadsheet editing, etc."
JamimaPanAm - "Reality check: Market adjustment, not perpetual growth. Corpos can only squeeze a dollar so hard…"
PARANOIAH - "Perpetual growth of sales number is a fairytale - or some suit's wet dream."
brit953 - "As the cell phone manufacturers are finding out. Gets to a point that everyone has one and there's no new killer app or function that current phone can't do so no driver to upgrade."
SmurfsNeverDie - "Im sure more things will drop in the near future. Student loans are back baby which means we have less disposable income. The rest of the economy be damned"
XenonJFt - "r/USdefaultism"
SmurfsNeverDie - "In 2021, the top importers of Computers were United States ($102B), Germany ($26.4B), Hong Kong ($20.8B), Netherlands ($20.5B), and Japan ($13.6B)."
esp211 - "I do well financially and we have enjoyed the pause in our student loan payments. The issue is in the time since the pause EVERYTHING has gotten more expensive and they have kept our salaries about the same (one 4% raise since 2019). I have less disposable income than pre-pandemic and now I have to figure out how to add a payment back into the budget the size of a small car payment. I can do it but it sucks and I won’t be upgrading PCs and other things in the house for quite some time."
SmurfsNeverDie - "Its like you live in a vacuum where inflation and rent hikes don’t exist. They do and then you add student loan payments to the mix and it reduces income further."
esp211 - "2% is pretty big when you talk about 1 single product is it not? This is also 100% guaranteed spending. Right?"
esp211 - "We’re you not talking student loans?"
Bob_the_peasant - "Meaningful at-home pc innovation hasn’t happened in 10+ years, barring pc gaming enthusiasts willing to pay inflated prices. And corporate refresh for pcs has been unnecessary and stagnant for awhile too"
HotboxedTurtleOnZees - "Majority of people don’t need a PC anymore. Everything they used to use a PC for they use their phone now too. I remember having a PC and using it pretty much for Facebook, e-mail, TurboTax, YouTube, and to store pictures I took with my old timey digital camera. I have a PC now, used exclusively for torrenting and hosting a Plex server. I run a business off my iPad. I could run it off my phone but I like the large display so customers can read contracts, reports, or invoices more comfortably before signing them. When folding phablets become more mainstream I plan to run a business off my phone entirely."
robertoandred - "Apple silicon has changed the laptop game though"
Enlightenment777 - "A mountain of families bought new computers during the COVID19 era for home schooling, thus there is a lack of demand now. It's this fucking simple to understand."
HunanTheSpicy - "Couple that with quarantines and stimulus checks and you have temporarily inflated sales for new pc gamers and shocked Pikachu face when you can't replicate those sales year over year. Fucking duh"
personae_non_gratae_ - "....yet very little change in pricing...."
Loud_Try9301 - "Apple +10%, HP held steady. Everyone else declined."
xSwyftx - "Does not surprise me at all. Last fall I had the option to spend 1500 for a new pc or get the 512gb steam deck at half the price. Steam deck won and I do not regret it for one second"
