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back to article They kept that quiet. PC sales via distributors DID rise in Q2

It is a Friday and El Reg is pleased to be able to answer the burning question on the lips of readers across the land - just how did PC sales via distribution do in the second quarter? They went well. Though retailers and wholesalers bought in stock conservatively, as recorded by Gartner and IDC, channel analyst Context …

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  1. Boothy

    Is this the market settling down after the upset of things like Tablets?

    i.e. Just standard stuff in any interrupted market?

    i.e.

    We sell x number of doodads per year globally.

    Someone launches a thingamajig and lots of doodad users decide to switch as it does what 'they' need.

    After x amount of time, the new 'norm' settles in, with doodads and thingamajigs now sharing/splitting that once single market.

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    This is why....

    ...I rarely believe the likes of Gartner.

    As a private company we don't have to produce public accounts of our business and at my level I don't get to see them anyway, but it's obvious to anyone inside the company that desktop and server sales were up this year.

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