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The rise, rise, rise of cloud computing

An update on the growth and market shares of cloud computing by type, region and in context with other areas of enterprise IT spending Read more »

PCs in Q2 2108 – good growth in a market dominated by smart devices

PCs have been at the heart of access to the Internet and wider digital marketplace for many years. Despite falling behind smart phones in recent years it is still a major component of the ITC industry. In the year to the end of June 2018 236m PCs worth $163b were shipped, […] Read more »

Mobile devices in Q2 2018 – ‘smart’ dominates, but we need something more secure

An update on the Q2 2018 market form smartphones and some ideas about the need for more secure devices Read more »

The regional PC market’s American bias

In 2017 spending on PCs increased by 5% to $153 billion – the first annual growth since 2012. The same is not true of annual shipment growth, which has typically been stronger due increasing competition and declining average values. This trend was reversed in 2017 when the popularity of machines based on new […] Read more »

The gaming market – open v proprietary lessons for all ITC suppliers

Although the gaming console market is small and about ‘entertainment’, there are a number of issues it can help us with when trying to work out what’s going on in other, larger and more important areas of the IT and communications industry. As always my statistics published here are from […] Read more »

Mobile device market up 3.1% to $81.1b in Q2 2017 – Apple maintains its leadership

ITCandor's latest update on the mobile device market in Q2 2017 Read more »