Posts tagged: CE

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It

This week, NPD released an account of how the CE market fared in2011, and the numbers are tough. Total sales volume was essentially flat from 2010 despite the huge advances made by tablets, e-readers, and smartphones. Sales outside of the top five categories dropped precipitously (around 8 percent) from 2010, clearly a result of the ongoing volume declines across a whole range of traditional IT and CE products. Most observers, however, likely would have expected sales to increase in conjunction with the jump in those categories. That fact that sales didn’t is a red flag for the future of overall industry growth. This is the key point that was missed by most who reported on it.
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categories Consumer Technology | Stephen Baker, Vice President, Industry Analysis | datetime February 15, 2012 4:47 pm | comments Comments (0)

The New Technology Elite

Reflecting on the just concluded CES is an analyst ritual, although normally one I choose not to participate in. Too many gadgets to see, too many booths to comprehend, too much information for one person to absorb. And I spend more time off the floor with clients and retailers than I do wandering the aisles of South Hall.
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categories Consumer Technology | Stephen Baker, Vice President, Industry Analysis | datetime January 19, 2012 8:35 am | comments Comments (0)