<story><title>PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/gartner-global-pc-shipments-grew-1-4-in-q2-2018-first-increase-in-6-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>Interesting lot of people thought it was business cycles. Which is only partly true. There is China and PC Gaming. Both are now a huge market. For the past 4 - 5 years, if it wasn&amp;#x27;t for PC gaming, Unit Shipment would have been falling 10%+ YoY.&lt;p&gt;Many years ago people thought console would take over gaming. And it turns out Keyboard and Mouse are irreplaceable for certain type of games. You may never play PSE or FIFA on your PC any more, but many more strategy games, Online Games, FPS are still on PC. And as generation of people who grew up in gaming, there is ever increasing number of people on Twitch or other E-Sport streaming site.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately Apple thinks Gaming is a waste of time. And therefore Mac doesn&amp;#x27;t really cater for Games Developers. iOS Gaming is still a result of iOS popularity rather then Apple making it better. We can used to argue PC gaming is niche, for nerds, Riva TNT, 3Dfx, Rage 128, Radeon, Geforce.....&lt;p&gt;Now PC Gaming is no longer a small communities, and will continue to grow into much larger in the years to come.</text></comment>
<story><title>PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/12/gartner-global-pc-shipments-grew-1-4-in-q2-2018-first-increase-in-6-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>I wonder if this is due to a refresh cycle from PS bought in the past 3-5 years&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s 1.4% growth of something that was going downhill for a while already, so it might not be too impactful</text></comment>