Hey, Siri, why are Apple sales falling?
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 12 April 2019 12:06

Hey, Siri, why are Apple sales falling?


Credit Suisse says iPhone sales will drop 12 percent

Beancounters at Credit Suisse have predicted an even darker year for the fruity cargo-cult Apple with iPhone sales expected to decline 12.4 percent this year after last year's 3.2 percent drop.

Apple’s sales too unprofitable
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 22 March 2019 11:59

Apple’s sales too unprofitable


Top department store snubs Job’s Mob

Australia's largest department store Myer has announced that it will stop selling Apple products because they are unprofitable.

TFT LCD panel sales plummeting
Published in News
Tuesday, 19 February 2019 12:09

TFT LCD panel sales plummeting


Things are going to get worse. 

Shipments of l9-inch and above TFT LCD panels appear to be in free fall, according to beancounters at Digitimes Research.

PC shipments fell throughout 2018
Published in News
Friday, 11 January 2019 13:15

PC shipments fell throughout 2018


Trump's trade war and Intel's CPU shortages blamed

Beancounters at Gartner and IDC have both reported falls in PC sales during 2018. They both blame Intel's processor shortages and the trade war with China as the reason shipments declined during the last quarter and across the whole of 2018.

Huawei sold 200 million phones
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 27 December 2018 12:43

Huawei sold 200 million phones


Went from 103M in three years

Huawei managed to sell 200 million smartphones in 2018 - a massive increase from 103 million in 2015 or just three million in 2010. As of the first half of this year, Huawei is the world’s second biggest smartphone manufacturer overtaking Apple and leaving Samsung in the prime position.

Smartphones are in decline
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 06 December 2018 12:26

Smartphones are in decline


The market is no longer flat

New statistics suggest that smartphone use is not just flat, but is in total decline.

Global semiconductor industry growing
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 30 November 2018 12:33

Global semiconductor industry growing


Worth $129.8 billion

Beancounters at IHS Markit have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and worked out that the global semiconductor industry revenue grew 7.4 percent sequentially in the third quarter of 2018, reaching a record $129.8 billion.

Apple shares tank on iPhone sales warnings
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 13 November 2018 10:48

Apple shares tank on iPhone sales warnings


Who would have thought an overpriced phone would be such a loser?

Fruity cargo cult Apple's share price has fallen after its suppliers warned that their bottom lines would be taking a caning due to poor sales of the iPhone.

Smartphone sales slump
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 04 June 2018 10:56

Smartphone sales slump


Bubble burst

The smartphone bubble has finally burst, according to a new Internet Trends report.

Darren Grasby gets to run AMD CPU and GPU sales
Published in PC Hardware


Reporting directly to Jim Anderson

Up until January, Darren Grasby an ATI sales veteran, was working as President EMEA and Global Channel Sales at AMD. A month later he was promoted to run Corporate VR Global Computing and Graphics Sales and president for AMD in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).