19 Quotes by Charles Smulders

With Vista further out in the future, sales are less likely to slow down now.

Vendors will continue to look for ways to reach new audiences. The key determining factor on channel choice is profitability. I don't think we will see Dell moving into third-party retail anytime soon for that reason.

Vendors must find ways to persuade end-users to replace their PCs more frequently, ... Dataquest believes that the new generation of small form-factor PCs will be instrumental in making this happen.

Mobile growth came to some extent at the expense of desk-based PCs. Emerging regions had steady desk-based PC growth, however it could not offset the very weak desk-based PC growth in the mature regions.

Mobile demand remains strong worldwide, but in the U.S. desktop consumer market demand increased in response to renewed price competition.

Hewlett-Packard significantly narrowed the unit share gap between it and Dell on a worldwide basis compared with a year ago.

I think it may change buying behaviors of people who were willing to wait until the end of the year. They may choose to buy now instead.

It continues to be a very difficult market, and until we see an economic upturn, we should continue to expect that to be the case.

Emerging markets and consumer demand in the mature regions were the major growth engines on a worldwide basis.