14 DAY TRIAL // Sales of mobile computers overtook those of desktops just a few years ago, but their market share kept on growing, until they passed well over 50%, reaching quite a bit higher by the end of 2010, if a certain report is to be believed.
Waiting for market analysts to publish the results of their various studies is one way to learn about the current situation on the IT market and its various, individual segments.
Still, there are other ways of acquiring such information, or at least a general outline of how things are and how they will progress.
Fudzilla did something of the sort and, according to its report, got a hold of some information form PC component vendors.
Apparently, notebooks have been gradually eating up the market share of desktops in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle east and Africa).
Currently, mobile computers hold 70% of the total, leaving desktops with a 30% that is more than likely to drop over the next few years.
Certainly, it is not exactly possible for desktops to be removed from the picture entirely, but their market share and importance will keep dwindling until 2013 and possibly after that as well.
With the mobile sector becoming more important, tablets and phones will probably begin to have the same relationship with notebooks as the latter have with desktops.
After all, dual-core smartphones are almost here, and they will handle 1,080p media playback, among other things.
With better and better games also making their way to the phone market, one can safely say that it was sensible of AMD to launch mobile Fusion chips and for Intel to develop the Oak Trail.
Regardless, that desktops will keep losing ground to notebooks is something of a certainty, and that the latter will have to watch out for smaller devices (eventually) is also a possibility, though only time will actually tell what will happen.