IDC blames carbon tax for Aussie PC Slump

Stefan Mileschin · 26th June 2012, 06:17

Beancounters at IDC have come up with a novel reason why the Australian PC market is suffering.

Instead of claiming it is all to do with everyone moving to iPads, IDC is blaming the carbon tax and interest rates.

There were 1.55 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2012 to Australia and New Zealand, IDC said, comprising of 1.35 million PCs to Australia and 0.2 million to New Zealand. This is a 12 percent drop for Oz.

IDC market analyst Amy Cheah wrote that business spending was low and customers were waiting for Chipzilla's Ivy Bridge, which was unveiled in April.

She argued that one of the reasons for depressed spending was the fact that businesses in Australia were jolly depressed. The carbon tax as one of several factors which "continued to weigh down consumer and business sentiment in Australia".

Curiously, the carbon tax has not been implemented in Australia yet so it is a little strange that it has been identified as stopping PC sales.

Cheah said the idea that tablets were cannibalising notebook sales was a myth. They had caned the netbook market, a category that was already on the decline.

http://news.techeye.net/hardware/idc...ussie-pc-slump

26th June 2012, 06:17	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,500	IDC blames carbon tax for Aussie PC Slump Beancounters at IDC have come up with a novel reason why the Australian PC market is suffering. Instead of claiming it is all to do with everyone moving to iPads, IDC is blaming the carbon tax and interest rates. There were 1.55 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2012 to Australia and New Zealand, IDC said, comprising of 1.35 million PCs to Australia and 0.2 million to New Zealand. This is a 12 percent drop for Oz. IDC market analyst Amy Cheah wrote that business spending was low and customers were waiting for Chipzilla's Ivy Bridge, which was unveiled in April. She argued that one of the reasons for depressed spending was the fact that businesses in Australia were jolly depressed. The carbon tax as one of several factors which "continued to weigh down consumer and business sentiment in Australia". Curiously, the carbon tax has not been implemented in Australia yet so it is a little strange that it has been identified as stopping PC sales. Cheah said the idea that tablets were cannibalising notebook sales was a myth. They had caned the netbook market, a category that was already on the decline. http://news.techeye.net/hardware/idc...ussie-pc-slump

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
NASA's Venus transit coverage interrupted by fumbling Aussie	Stefan Mileschin	WebNews	0	7th June 2012 06:28
Woz backs Apple Aussie price revolt	Stefan Mileschin	WebNews	0	14th May 2012 09:12
Nvidia blames TSMC for Fermi's Failures	jmke	WebNews	0	23rd September 2010 17:53
Top Aussie newspaper writes an article about overclocking Team.AU	Massman	WebNews	3	9th September 2008 11:14
Aussie team claims 5Gbps wireless breakthrough	Shogun	WebNews	0	22nd February 2008 22:54
Creative blames Nvidia for X-Fi problems	jmke	WebNews	0	24th August 2006 17:55
Aussie clock cockup confuses computers	jmke	WebNews	0	26th March 2006 13:04
DRAM sales slump as Dramurai play musical chairs	Sidney	WebNews	0	3rd August 2005 16:50
IBM to cut thousands of jobs after mainframe slump	Sidney	WebNews	0	17th April 2005 04:33