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iPad Sends Microsoft PC Sales Growth Negative for the First Time Ever?

Posted May 27, 2011 at 5:34pm by iClarified · 16245 views
Microsoft's Consumer PC Growth is about to go negative for the first time ever, according to a BusinessInsider report.

Microsoft's consumer PC sales growth has pretty much never declined. Not even when Microsoft released Vista. Not even when the economy went in the toilet.

But suddenly, the growth of sales is about to go negative, says Citi analyst Walter Pritchard. Take a look at the chart below, and consider what changed in the last year.


The site suggests that the iPad release on April 3rd, 2010 has had a big impact on consumer pc sales. The chart below shows a decline in growth every quarter since then.

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