14 DAY TRIAL // According to Taiwan’s MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute), notebook shipments will decrease by 4.3% in 2016.
The reason for this is apparently the limited benefit of the Windows 10 update in notebooks and the market erosion by 2-in-1 PCs. As it turns out, the new operating system from Microsoft affected the sales of notebooks and laptops by infusing the markets with a wait-and-see effect.
The continuous upgrades for the new Windows 10 and its young age keep potential customers at bay from spending money on new machines, orienting them towards either desktop PCs or mobile computing platforms like tablets. Unfortunately, this situation greatly affects emerging markets, causing companies to lose a lot of money on lost opportunities.
According to MIC, the shipments in 2015 will amount to 1,610 million, which represents a decrease of 6.2% year-over-year, leading to one of the highest recession rates in the past five years.
Now, it pretty much makes sense that Intel came back to PCs in a great hurry. Seeing the 2-in-1 market plummeting, it's clear that mediocre sales will be recorded when some sort of crisis starts affecting a weak market segment.
Laptop markets are waiting for a more mature Windows 10
Apparently, a free Windows 10 update killed any chance for users to buy new notebooks equipped with the new operating system. Users will rather update their old notebooks to the very retrofit-friendly Windows 10 instead of buying a new machine just to work on a new operating system like they did in the past. This made notebook shipments to decline to about 1,550 million.
CTimes cites MIC as saying that desktop sales will increase compared to the disastrous year 2015, which saw PC sales plummet to record low sales, due to the introduction of Intel's new Skylake processor. MIC believes that desktop shipments will grow to 1,210 million next year, which is already low compared to the other markets, but it is, nevertheless, a growth of 1.3% compared to 2015.