Two years ago, analysts began worrying that consumers would stop buying PCs. While their warnings may have been a bit overblown, it certainly does seem that vendors are increasingly reluctant to make PCs.
Over the past year, Dell has gone private, Samsung has pulled out of the European PC market, Sony has sold off its PC business, and now Hewlett-Packard has declared its intention to spin off its PC and printer business into separate companies. And that probably won't be the end of it, analysts say, as the industry further consolidates.
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