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Posted on May 27, 2022February 26, 2024 by Dan Ness

Highlights: PCs

PCs continue to hold a central role among online adults, especially as a substantial number work from home or find ways to stay connected. However, PC users are not all the same in the type of PC they use nor how they use them. This TUP Highlights report details the shifting market penetration of PCs, how ownership has changed, and which brands are leading. It details how often PCs are being used as well as how they are being used for everything from remote work to communication, shopping, and entertainment.

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CategoriesDevices, Highlights, Mobile Phones, PCs, Technology Ecosystems, TUP 2016, TUP 2017, TUP 2018, TUP 2019, TUP 2020, TUP 2021, User Profile TagsAcer, Activities, Advantaged, Age, Age Groups, Android smartphones, Apple, Apple iOS, Apple iPhone, Apple Mac, ASUS, Basic cell phones, Brand footprint, Brands, Children, Children’s schoolwork, Chrome OS, Chromebooks, Cloud storage, Collaboration, Communication, Connected devices, Dell, Demographics, Desktop PCs, Devices, Digital divide, Digital equity, Disadvantaged, Ecosystems, Education, Elders, Employees, Employer-provided PCs, Employment status, Entertainment, Ethnicity, Family, Feature phones, Fun, Game consoles, Game-playing, Games, Gaming notebook, Gaming PCs and Game-Playing, Germany, Google Android, Hewlett Packard, Hispanic, Home PC activities, Home PCs, Hours, Household size, HP, Industry, Inequity, Internet browsing, iOS, iPadOS, iPhone, Japan, K-12 Education, Lenovo, Life stage, Mac, MacBooks, Macintosh, MacOS, Marital status, Market penetration, Metaverse, Microsoft Windows, Mobile phones, Movies, News, Operating systems, Parents, PC activities, PCs, Penetration, Personal activities, Phone calls, Photographs, Photos, POC, Presence of children, Productivity, Samsung, Seniors, Shopping, Smartphone activities, Smartphones, Social networking, Sociodemographics, Sports, Streaming music, Students, Tablet activities, Tablets, Technology Ecosystems, Text messaging, TV, UK, Usage, Video calling, Video calls, Voice assistants, Vulnerable, Weather, Windows, Work PC activities, Work PCs, Work-related activities

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  • iPhone
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  • Millennials
  • Mobile phones
  • Operating systems
  • Pandemic
  • PC activities
  • PCs
  • Penetration
  • Printers
  • Remote workers
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  • Smartphone activities
  • Smartphones
  • Sociodemographics
  • Tablets
  • Technology Ecosystems
  • Trends
  • User Profile
  • Windows
  • Work-related activities
  • Work from home

RECENT METAFAQS, TUPDATES, AND HIGHLIGHTS

  • Skype call forwarding its active base
  • Number of printer users using refilled ink or toner by country and generation
  • Aging ASUS work computers due for a refresh
  • Lenovo work computer users-a stable if unexcited group
  • Apple work computer users at a crossroads
  • Dell’s moribund home computer base
  • iPhone user base – broader and still somehow different
  • Lenovo’s leading edge – in home computing
  • Brother home printer successes may lead to future challenges
  • Inertia and tradition defend Epson home printer installed base

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