As the worlds of communication and technology increasingly become mobile-first, the traditional desktop PC continues to go the way of the dodo bird. The analysts at Gartner are today publishing their annual devices forecast, and they project 2014 to be another banner year for mobile — and its biggest player, Android. There will be 2.5 billion PCs, tablets and mobile handsets shipped this year. Of those, 1.9 billion will be mobile handsets, and 1.1 billion devices will be Android-based.
That represents an overall rise of 7.6% over 2013, with all of the growth coming from mobile devices like handsets, tablets and “ultramobiles” (Gartner’s preferred term for those devices like Samsung’s Galaxy Note that are not-quite-tablets). Desktop and notebook PCs will decline to 278 million units, Gartner says. Generally speaking, this is a big improvement over 2013, a year that saw only 3.8% growth.
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