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Posted on September 10, 2024November 1, 2024 by Dan Ness

The continued decline of widespread personal computer use

Market penetration is one of the core overall measures affecting all manner of technology companies: hardware, software, services, and support. The key device types measured in this analysis are the active use of a home computer, an employer-provided “work” computer, or any other computer, such as one supplied by a university or in a library, cybercafé, or owned by a friend or neighbor. The primary measure reported in this TUPdate is the percentage of online adults in the US, Germany, the UK, Japan, or China actively using any of these computers.
Approach: This TUPdate is based on the surveys of 82,101 respondents in the US, Germany, the UK, Japan, and China from 2019 through 2024. In the TUP/Technology User Profile questionnaire, we asked respondents to identify the active installed base of connected devices they use – smartphones, feature phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. In addition, we had them specify the source of funds for the computers they use – home, work (employer-provided), or other (public, school, library, cybercafe, friend, etc.)

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CategoriesDevices, PCs, TUP 2019, TUP 2020, TUP 2021, TUP 2022, TUP 2023, TUP 2024, TUPdates, User Profile TagsComputers, Connected devices, Devices, Home computers, Home PCs, Market penetration, PCs, Trends, Work computers, Work PCs, Work relationship

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