The rise and fall of the PC in one chart PC的上升和下降在一個圖表中
The year was 2007, and Apple Inc.'s shiny handheld computer was finally being unwrapped after years of speculation. Not everyone could have predicted that just four years later, mobile devices would officially overtake the PC.
這一年是2007年，經過多年的猜測，蘋果公司的閃亮掌上電腦終於被打開了。不是每個人都可以預測，僅僅四年之後，移動裝置將正式超越PC。
Worldwide growth of smartphone shipments skyrocketed by 1,000% between 2007, when there were 124 million shipments, and 2015, when shipments topped 1.4 billion, according to data from industry tracker IDC. PCs, meanwhile, have been on the decline since peaking at 362 million in 2011, dropping by more than 20% over the past four years alone, according to Gartner.
根據行業追蹤公司IDC的資料，2007年全球智慧手機出貨量增長了1000％，當時出貨量為1.24億次，2015年出貨量超過14億次。據Gartner稱，個人電腦自2011年達到3.62億，達到峰值，僅在過去四年中下降了20％以上。
While much of the decline in recent years has been because of the rise of two-in-one tablet devices -- traditional slate computers with detachable keyboards, such as the iPad Pro -- the trend also speaks to a broader shift in how people are accessing the Internet.
雖然近年來的大部分下降是由於二合一平板電腦裝置的興起 - 傳統的帶有可拆卸鍵盤的平板電腦，如iPad Pro--這一趨勢也說明了人們如何做出更廣泛的轉變。訪問網際網路。
"Our view has always been that smartphones and tablets didn't replace the PC, but extended the life cycle of it," said Ryan Reith, a program director at IDC's mobile device tracker group. "Consumers just are not refreshing their PCs as much as they used to because they're using them less."
"我們的觀點一直是智慧手機和平板電腦並沒有取代PC，而是延長了它的生命週期，"IDC移動裝置跟蹤器組的專案主管Ryan Reith說。 "消費者只是不像過去那樣更新他們的PC，因為他們使用的更少。"
The huge rise in mobile computing time has, over the past few years, powered the growth of companies that have positioned themselves to profit from the huge increase in mobile, like Apple
在過去幾年中，移動計算時間的大幅增長推動了那些已經將自己定位於從移動裝置的巨大增長中獲利的公司的增長，例如AppleAAPL, +0.37% , Alphabet Inc.
, Alphabet Inc.GOOG, +0.42%
GOOGL, +0.37% and Facebook Inc.
and Facebook Inc.FB, +0.08% But it has weighed heavily on companies more exposed to the traditional computer market, such as Intel Corp.
但它已經嚴重影響了更多暴露於傳統計算機市場的公司，例如英特爾公司。INTC, +1.95% , HP Inc.
, HP Inc.HPQ, +1.50% and Dell.
and Dell.
On Tuesday, Intel
On Tuesday, Intelcut 11% of its workforce , or 12,000 jobs, marking one of its largest workforce reductions ever in an attempt to streamline the business and refocus on fast-growing business lines such as data centers and cloud computing.
，或者12,000個工作崗位，標誌著其有史以來最大的裁員之一，旨在簡化業務並重新關注快速增長的業務線，如資料中心和雲端計算。
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While the product life cycle of the PC in 2009 was around three-and-a-half to four years, it has since expanded to between five and six years as people use their PCs less frequently and the hardware lasts longer, said Reith. In other words, the smartphones apps you're addicted to, such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Spotify, are stealing away quality PC time.
Reith說，雖然2009年個人電腦的產品生命週期大約是三年半到四年，但由於人們不經常使用電腦並且硬體使用時間更長，因此它已經擴充套件到五到六年。換句話說，你沉迷於的智慧手機應用程式，如Instagram，Facebook，Pinterest和Spotify，正在竊取高質量的PC時間。
To make matters worse, the PC's keyboard is even starting to lose some of its luster. While the keyboard has been among the most desired features of PCs even in the wake of the recent declines, tablet keyboards are becoming more capable and mobile devices are becoming more powerful, which is starting to lead to the cannibalization of PC sales.
更糟糕的是，PC的鍵盤甚至開始失去一些光彩。雖然鍵盤已成為PC最受歡迎的功能之一，即使在最近的衰退之後，平板鍵盤也變得越來越強大，移動裝置變得越來越強大，這開始導致PC銷售的蠶食。
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