Tag archive: Gartner

We haven't yet seen a beta version of Windows 8, but analysts are already claiming it is doomed. Analysts from IDC, Gartner, and Forrester are predicting that the new OS will face an uphill battle in the PC and tablet markets for a number of reasons, but none of those reasons seem particularly relevant to the OS itself or the experience of using it. Microsoft has released an extremely limited Developer Preview of Windows 8, but the OS is… Read More

Android’s getting a lot of attention for being forecast as becoming the OS for over half of all smartphones by 2012, but the real story in the report is that Gartner thinks Windows Windows Phone 7 will overtake iOS by 2015 and claim the number two spot. Despite the skeptical reception the Nokia-Microsoft merger received, its long-term payoff will help drive Windows Phone 7 to a 19.5-percent market share come 2015. Speculation from the report… Read More

Market analysis firm Gartner is trying to look into the future of the turbulent smartphone market—and it sees things coming up very rosy for Google's Android operating system. According to Gartner, by the end of 2012 Android will be powering nearly half of all smartphones sold worldwide (49.2 percent), while Apple's iOS and Rim's BlackBerry platforms will be distant runners-up with 18.9 and 12.6 percent of the smartphone… Read More

Market analysis firm Gartner has revised its forecasts for PC shipments during 2011 and 2012—and the news isn't that good for PC manufacturers. Gartner still predicts that PC shipments will increase by 10.5 percent in 2011 and 2012 as the world economy recovers, but that figure is a downward revision of an original growth estimate of 15.9 percent. The reason? Gartner believes China's PC market will be weaker than it initially… Read More

Industry analysis firms IDC and Gartner have released their market summaries for U.S. and worldwide PC sales during the fourth quarter of 2010. As always, the two analyses don't match on every detail, but the broad strokes are consistent: the worldwide PC market saw modest growth during the fourth quarter of last year, and Apple and Toshiba in particular rung up strong sales in the U.S. market. However, the news wasn't all rosy for… Read More

An army of tablet PCs may be hitting the market fully equipped with e-book reading software, but that won't stop e-readers from selling. A new release by Gartner predicts that e-reader sales will continue to display huge growth in the years to come. The research company forecasts that a total of 6.6 million e-readers will be sold in 2010, up 79.8 percent from 2009 sales of 3.6 million units. And in 2011, sales should surpass 11 million… Read More

We knew this day was coming. First the bots befriend us, then they replace us. Gartner has released a series of predictions for IT organizations and users to watch out for in the next five years. While most are boring to anyone who isn't ordering cooling fans for a server farm, a couple predictions caught our eye. It seems that computer bots are going to be filling a significant portion of social networking chatter by 2015. That's… Read More

Market analysis firm Gartner has updated its forecast for PC sales during 2010—and the numbers have some good news and some bad news for the PC industry. The good news is that worldwide PC sales are up 14.3 percent so far in 2010 compared to 2009, a sign that both consumers and businesses are buying computers again in the wake of the worldwide economic downturn. The bad news is that Gartner originally predicted 2010 PC sales growth of… Read More

Everybody wants a new phone these days. Worldwide mobile phone sales for the third quarter of 2010 were up by more than 100 million units from last year, reports Gartner. Sales for the quarter were 417 million units, a gain from 309 million one year ago. Smartphone sales grew 96 percent from last year and accounted for 19.3 percent of sales, or 81 million units. Of the six major operating systems, Android showed the most impressive growth.… Read More

New reports from market analysis firms Gartner and IDC confirm what most industry watchers already knew: the second quarter of 2010 was a boom time for smartphone sales, with both firms agreeing worldwide smartphone sales increased 50 percent compared to the second quarter of 2009. The firms also agree that Google's Android platform also benefited significantly from that growth, with Gartner saying Android has overtaken Apple's… Read More

Market analysis firm Gartner has released its figures for worldwide PC sales during the second quarter of 2010, and the results show Acer continuing to stay ahead of Dell for the number-two PC maker worldwide…although Hewlett-Packard still maintains a strong lead. Perhaps as significant, however, is that Asus has managed to knock Toshiba out of the top five PC manufacturers for the quarter, with Asus showing the strongest growth among… Read More

New market figures from research firms IDC and Gartner show that the fourth quarter of 2009 was a major win for PC manufacturers: PC shipments were up more than 20 percent in the quarter compared to the same period in 2008. Although the holiday quarter has historically been strong for consumer PC sales, the shipment data makes the quarter the best quarter-over-quarter growth the global PC market has seen in seven years—and cheap PCs and… Read More

World computer shipments between April and June were down 5% on the same period last year, according to research group Gartner. While that news is hardly surprising, it’s better than expected, since the company had forecast a 9.8% drop. With over 19% of PC shipments, Hewlett-Packard remained top dog, and actually increased its market share from last year’s 18.1%, due to what Gartner termed “aggressive” price cuts.… Read More

The people at Acer have every reason to be feeling good today. According to a new report from Gartner, the company has pipped HP as the leading PC seller for the third quarter in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and secured third place in global sales behind HP and Dell. Much of the credit is due to Acer’s strong position in the mini-notebook market, according to ZDNet. According to Ranjit Atwal, Gartner principal… Read More

Market analysis firm Gartner says the number of IPTV subscribers—folks who subscribe to video services delivered over the Internet—is on pace to reach a total of 19.6 million subscribers worldwide by the end of 2008, which would represent a 64.1 percent increase over 12 million IPTV users in 2007. Gartner also projects that the IPTV market will represent $4.5 billion in business during 2008 (a 93.5 percent increase over 2007) and… Read More