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Is this showing that the PC death is overrated or that the HDD producer's monopoly works as planned?

"PC death" is a marketing fad.

No, not marketing. Growth has been flat. The market relies on growth. From an investors point of view if you aren't growing then someone else is so they should divest from your company and go to something else.

PC death is still here--at least of a fashion: it's a mature market, and people aren't replacing them on short timescales anymore. Instead of 1-3 years, replacement timescales became 3-5 years, and at this point it's probably 5-7 years. Desktops have largely been supplanted by laptops, and the new hotness is in the phone and tablet space.

> Instead of 1-3 years, replacement timescales became 3-5 years, and at this point it's probably 5-7 years.

I don't think that's true. Laptops are still being replaced every ~3 years, from what I've seen. The difference is that a lot of those frequent upgraders are Mac users, and all the new Mac laptops use SSDs.

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