With the arrival of the pandemic and the home office, the PC industry had a significant resurgence, but, in the coming years, the demand for this work tool is expected to suffer a precipitous drop.
After the health emergency caused by Covid-19, technology and the different digital platforms and social networks available on the market became the setting for school classes, work meetings, calls with friends and/or family, entertainment, and, in general, in an extremely important space given the scarcity of human contact in the world.
In this sense, according to data from Glimpsean American company that monitors consumer trends on the Internet, the platforms most used by Internet users in terms of online classes, remote work, etc., were Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, among others.
Today, it is known that the Covid-19 environment is very different from what was experienced a couple of years ago; schools, jobs and, in general, life is returning to a face-to-face setting and the home office, far from being a necessity, could be considered a luxury.
From this perspective, the demand for personal computers (PCs) is slowly declining and, in fact, estimates of GartnerGlobal PC shipments will decline nine percent by 2022, remaining above pre-pandemic levels.
“A perfect storm of geopolitical turmoil, high inflation, currency fluctuations, and supply chain disruptions have reduced demand for devices from businesses and consumers around the world and is set to hit the PC market the hardest in 2022. ”, announced Ranjit Atwal, senior analyst director at Gartner.
Mexicans and the use of personal computers (PC)
Since its birth, between 1943 and 1945, the computer has revolutionized global society in many aspects. Today, with technology that continues to grow, we are facing a highly relevant and essential device, even though mobile devices (smartphones or tablets) have been gaining ground.
However, in Mexico, the use of computer has reduced considerably, as reflected in the data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), which indicates that during 2020, the year of the pandemic, there were some 44.4 million users using computers, which represents a 38.0 percent of the total population.
Now, the percentage of reported computer users is 5.0 percent lower than what was registered in 2019. Today, the most common uses of these devices are school work (54.9 percent), work activities (42.8 percent ) and as a means of training (30.6 percent).