CIOZone.com - Professional Network for CIOs and IT Professionals

Matt says he was taken somewhat aback by the negativity of my most recent posts, so I’ll accentuate the positive in this one. Yes, indeed, this is clear evidence that April wasn’t nearly as cruel a month for technology spending as it was expected to be. Take that, perma-bears!

Even so (sorry, Matt, just can’t help it), the full year forecast for global PC unit sales is still a negative 6%. On the bright side, that would be only half the decline forecast earlier. Similarly the updated forecast for cell phone sales for the full year is negative 7%, but that would be less than half the 15% decline expected earlier.

Good (great? terrific?) progress of a sort, I suppose, if you like to play the expectations game. And for Matt’s sake, I’ll end this on the bright side, or at least what passes for my bright side. (Full disclosure: One of my wife’s many nicknames for me is Curmudge.)

Comments (1)

	1. 06-01-2009 18:36
	If I could, I would personally increase IT spending across the entire economy just so you would have to write a truly positive article. However, I'm sure you'd include a line saying, "But questions remain over whether such short-term gains are sustainable."    But thanks for the effort. Registered

Matthew Quinn

Only registered users can write comments.
Please login or register.