By the way so in 2014 Sony sold off their computer business and still own about 5% of it (vaIO) they were not doing that good and had to do restructuring. I think by this point SCE (later named SIE) was one of the few profitable portion of Sony.
One of their plans was to just ditch PCs and instead focus on mobile...... Oh boy that did not work in their favor at all. Year after year their mobile division has been doing worse and worse and worse. This year alone I think they have sold less than 1 million phones world wide. Even in Japan they have less than a 10% market share. Samsung has something like 6% market share there.
You also see some companies like Konami entering the PC space.
But then again I think that's Sony's VAIO line was targeted at high end business class stuff. And not students, not gamers, and not at the low end spectrum of the market and stuff. They were mainly going after business people and stuff like that, were there was already a lot of competition. Before they sold VAIO they were even doing some stuff with it being able to do some stuff with a PS4 like remote play (this is before they eventually just made the Windows app available for everyone, they did the same with their mobile app, prior you could only rite play in Xperia phones).
In a weird world were in addition to the PS4 Sony keeps the VAIO business and even makes a new line dedicated to students (I think in Japan even in 2014 and such there was not as high of a laptop adoption rate compared to over seas and even those that did have one were using a MacBook).
On a someone related note to that how have PC hardware sales been like because of Covid? Did they shoot up from people working from home and stuff? Would they have made more money from VAIO this year because of Covid compared to Xperia?
I was going to say some more stuff but I lost my train of thought.
Oh yeah Apex in just a few days!!!!!!
Also I was able to get both the Lifeline and Bloodhound editions of the game!!!. I was able to get the Lifeline from Best buy for just $10USD. I got the bloodhound one for $7USD form GameStop (on clearance). They both comes with Origin codes and each include $10USD worth of in-game currency and some exclusive skins. So for under $20USD I got a pretty good deal and also I can use this stuff on the Steam version of the game!!!!
I'd say get to the back of the line
Where does the line start?
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Something that was happening between 2010-2014 was that there was a decrease in laptop sales. I can't recall about desktop sales though. I guess that people thought that tablets would just outright replace computers and stuff because of the iPad. I am not sure how tablets are doing now (for all I know they could in reality be doing all time high in sales and stuff) but they did not end up replacing laptop (which evolved into Ultrabooks) and smartphones just ended up getting a lot bigger and faster to the point that you really don't need a tablet. I've thought about getting a tablet and stuff but I have not really had a need to. The last one that I purchased was a Nexus 7 all the way back in 2013. Since I don't go to my school campus to do school work I have not needed to get another laptop, the last one that I got was a Surface Pro 3 back in 2016 or so. What if I get one of those new VAIO Ultrabooks? They are just under $2kUSD.