14 DAY TRIAL // It’s a strange thing how people, like sheep, seem to follow the leadership of the wolves that tell them that when your family’s own economy is down, a cutback in salary is exactly what you need.
Helping people with austerity measures is like putting a malnourished child from Somalia on a diet, just to make sure he won’t suffer from obesity.
Exactly the same thing is currently happening in Europe. A new wave of elitists seem to be preaching the fact that cutting people’s salaries to maintain huge profits in the government awarded contracts is the way to go.
Not wanting to debate on the economical strategies and if they’re sound or failed, we’ll only present the results.
The total shipments in Western Europe were reportedly around 15.5 million units, representing a 3.1% decline when compared with last year.
The countries with the heaviest hits were Portugal, Greece, Italy and Spain. Market analysts from Gartner said that this was mostly due to the rising popularity of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.
The only countries that reported increases were the UK and Germany with a 2.4% and 7.1% increase respectively and, just coincidentally, these are the countries with the least of the “wonderful” austerity measures.
Remember that, globally, HP is still the top PC maker, but in Western Europe, Acer is now the leader of the pack.
Total shipments in United Kingdom were around 3 million units and that is surprisingly more than Germany’s total sales of around 2.4 million units.
These results only present the status of the first quarter of this year and, unfortunately, if these “panacea” austerity measures will continue, the situation will look much worse at the end of this year.