“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.”
From “1984”, by George Orwell, 1949
THE DATA, AND THE BULLSHIT-PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY EXCUSES
From 2020 to 2022, the iPad’s market share decreased by 17%.
From 2021 to 2022, international tablet shipments decreased by 31%.
From 2021 to 2022, smartphone sales in India decreased by 12%. In February 2022, IDC.com said “India’s Smartphone Market Grew by 7% in 2021”.
In the second half of 2021, international smartphone sales volumes decreased by 5%.
In the 2nd Quarter of 2021, international tablet sales decreased by 15%.
In the 3rd Quarter of 2021, The U.S. PC market decreased by 8.8%.
In the 3rd Quarter of 2021, international smartphone sales decreased by 6.8%. Datamation.com referred to the the gigantic decrease as “meaningful impact”, and attributed it to “component shortages”.
In the 4th Quarter of 2021, international tablet sales decreased by 25%.
In the 4th Quarter of 2021, Apple’s market share decreased by 9.8%, from 44.6% to 40.2%. Canalys described it as “iPads ruled the tablet market. Apple dominated the tablet market share with more than 19 million shipments.”
In the 4th Quarter of 2021, international PC shipments decreased by 5%.
In the 4th Quarter of 2021, international smartphone sales decreased by 3.2%. IDC.com referred to the decrease as “negative growth”, and said that it was “slight”.
THE ARTICLES
SMARTPHONES
In July 2021, gartner.com said “Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Grew 26% in First Quarter of 2021”.
In September 2021, garnter.com said “Global smartphone sales to end users totaled 328.8 million in the second quarter of 2021, an increase of 10.8% year over year’.
For those keeping score, Gartner has smartphone sales up 36.8% through the second quarter of 2021.
In December 2022, datamation.com said “Global Smartphone Sales Decline 6.8% in Q3”.
The article goes on to say “Component shortages disrupted production schedules, leading to lower inventory and delayed product availability, which eventually impacted sales to end-users, according to the market research firm Gartner last month.”
Despite hiding in their houses in fear of the barely-covert international release of a Chinese bat virus with four amino acids added for improved transmissibility to humans, no one was able to buy the preciousss smartphones they so coveted, because they were out of stock.
Fort hose keeping score, smartphone sales are purportedly up 30% through the first three quarters of 2021.
One month later, in January 2022, idc.com said “Smartphone Shipments Declined in the Fourth Quarter But 2021 Was Still a Growth Year with a 5.7% Increase in Shipments, According to IDC”.
Can you see how the author shook the doll of “was still a growth year”, and hid the specific percentage decrease in the fourth quarter of 2022 behind the hedging generality “smartphone shipments declined in the fourth quarter”? Since we’re in a boring lecture on the subject, we recall we just learned that, per Gartner, smartphone sales decreased 6.8% in the third quarter of 2021.
The article goes on to say “Worldwide smartphone shipments declined year over year in the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21) marking the second straight quarter of negative growth.”
Whenever an author repeats the same thing in the first line of the article that they said in the headline, that’s a trigger for your subconscious to stop reading immediately.
Only in a world controlled by literally-blood-drinking generational Satanists can exponentially-decreasing sales be called “negative growth”.
The article goes on to say “Despite a challenging second half of the year, full-year shipments still grew thanks to a strong first half.”
Where, once again, we see the shaking of the “full year” doll, and hiding of the statistics from the catastrophically-decreasing third and fourth quarters behind the hedging generality of “a challenging second half”.
And, now, at last, the author coughs up the actual data: “According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 362.4 million phones during the holiday quarter (4Q21), which was down 3.2% year over year but slightly better than IDC’s forecast. On an annual basis, the market grew 5.7% in 2021 with 1.35 billion smartphones shipped.“There’s no question the second half of 2021 failed to meet expectations with volumes declining 4.5% compared to the second half of 2020,” said Ryan Reith, group vice president with IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers. "As we mentioned last quarter, the supply chain and component shortages started to have meaningful impact on the smartphone market as we entered the second half of the year, and this continues to be the case as we’ve now entered 2022.”
Where a going-out-business decrease in sales volume is described in Mil-speak as “meaningful impact”.
Since we previously learned that smartphone sales decreased 6.8% in the third quarter of 2021, we can add the 3.2% decrease in the 4th quarter, divide by 2, and learn that smartphone sales volumes decreased 5% in the second half of 2021, to 4.5%, as fraudulently claimed by idc.com.
You can also now recognize that the author from IDC shoved the 6.8% decrease in the third quarter down the memory hole, instead blending it together with the 4th quarter’s 3.2% decrease to provide a softer number, which they then hedge downward by ten percent (5% to 4.5%).
For the mouth-breathing Coincidence theorist and the NPR addict, “supply chain and component shortages” explain away the ever-decreasing sales of what is to this moment purported to be the most important invention in the history of the human race.
IDC said “the market grew 5.7% in 2021”. Let’s break it down:
Gartner said it increased 26% in the first quarter, and then increased 10.8% in the second quarter. That’s up 36.8%. Then it decreased 6.8% in the third quarter. That would mean it would still be up 30%, year over year, right? Then it decreased 3.2% in the fourth quarter. Gartner’s numbers have the market increasing by 26.8%. Yet IDC said it was up 5.7% for the year. Someone’s obviously telling a gigantic lie, and we can prove scientifically that the party doing the bald-faced lying is Gartner, with their gigantic first and second quarter sales numbers. We know they’re lying given that, the further we go forward in time, the smaller the number is getting, e.g. an actual 5.7% net increase for the year, as the gigantic lies of the first and second quarters can no longer be maintained.
I’ve exposed Garnter’s duplicity by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. One of those many variants is “no question”. That’s why the IDC article goes on to say “We expect to see supply and logistical challenges continue through the first half of this year, but we currently believe we’ll return to growth in the second quarter and second half of 2022. There is no question that demand is still strong in many markets, and to some extent we are seeing increasing consumer interest in 5G and new form factorslike foldables."
The “supply chain” ruse is being played to cover the collapse of the PC, tablet and wearable markets, as well, as I’ve documented extensively in my separate articles on those subjects.
The whacky alliteration of “New form factors like foldables” is an obvious bit of what propagandists call “neurolinguistic programming”, to get the nugget buried more successfully in the subconscious of the Coincidence theorist. Have you ever seen any living human using one of these thousand-dollar-plus folding phones? I haven’t I think they’ve sold about ten of them, worldwide.
I heard a piece on NPR about six times this weekend, prattling about how complex smartphones are, and how they’re made from materials from all over the world, and how it’s vital we recycle smartphones, so that the supply chain isn’t threatened. They’re going to claim “all the tungsten got used up”, or some shit, and then stop selling smart phones, and blame it on “the supply chain”, to try to take attention away from the truth that people are abandoning them, because they know that using one makes you want to kill yourself, and causes your blood brain barrier to leak, generates rapidly-growing brain tumors, and lands your ass in an Alzheimer’s unit.
But they say that the hardest part of solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
In January 2022, canalys.com said “India’s smartphone shipments grew 11% YoY”. In July 2022, canalys.com said “smartphone shipments in India fell 13% between Q1 and Q2 2021, to 32.4 million units, due to the second wave of COVID-19, which stifled demand”. For those keeping score, that’s down 2% for the year through two quarters. In November 2021, economictimes.indiatimes.com said “India’s Smartphone shipments registered a year-on-year decline of 12 per cent in the September 2021 quarter due to supply challenges”. For those keeping score, that’s down 14% for the year, through three quarters. In January 2022, cnbc.com said “Following a strong comeback in Q3, smartphone vendors shipped 44.5 million devices in Q4 for 2% growth, despite a challenging supply chain.”
Where, with a straight face, CNBC.com called a 12% decrease in the third quarter “a strong comeback”. They’re using conscious deception while maintaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. I have exposed the duplicity of CNBC.com by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
If you add the 2% increase in the 4th quarter to the 14% decrease documented in the first three quarters, you get a net 12% decrease in smartphone sales in India in 2021. While, in February 2022, IDC.com said “India’s Smartphone Market Grew by 7% in 2021”.
As you can see, the folks in charge are not your friends, and are lying to you about basically everything, including smartphone sales, regardless of culture or geography.
I have exposed the duplicity of IDC.com by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
TABLETS
Now we’ll look at Tablets.
In June 2021, counterpointresearch.com said “Pandemic Push: Tablet Shipments up 53% YoY in Q1 2021”.
In August 2021, slashgear.com said “Tablet sales increased 4.2% in the 2nd Quarter, with 40.5 million units sold. That’s up 48.8% for the year through the first quarter.
In November 2021, canalys.com said “Tablet shipments fell 15% year on year to 37.7 million”. That’s up 33.8% for the year through the second quarter.
In January 2022, tvtechnology.com said “While supply constraints cratered tablet sales in Q4 2021, pushing shipments down by 25%” That’s still up 8.8% for the year.
In February 2022, 9to5mac.com said “New data by Canalys on the personal computer and tablet market shows that shipments in the US grew 1% in 2021. Shipments totaled a whopping 135 million units all year.
Wait, what? When you add them all up, the official numbers, stated throughout the year, showed an 8.8% growth in tablet sales. Yet, at the end of that year, Canalys says PC’s and Tablets grew 1% in 2021.
Here, just as with the smartphones we studied previously, the Big Lies are put forward, quarter by quarter, but those Big Lies can’t be sustained down through time.
But, wait, it gets better: the Canalys article continues: “iPads ruled the tablet market. Apple dominated the tablet market share with more than 19 million shipments. This was able to happen despite iPad shipments taking up to nine weeks. Overall, this is a 17% drop from 2020. Its market share went from 44.6% in Q4 2020 down to 40.2% in Q4 2021.”
Canalys just used Mil-speak to describe Apple’s nearly 20% decrease in market share over the last two years as “ruled the tablet market” and “dominated market share”.
But, wait, it gets even better: the article that opened up with the line “the personal computer and tablet market shows that shipments in the US grew 1% in 2021” later explains “demand for tablets as a whole decreased, as shipments declined 31%.”
As you can see, the folks in charge are not your friends, and are lying to you about basically everything, including tablet sales. I have exposed the duplicity of each and every media outlet reporting on the subject by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
Now, for any Coincidence theorists lingering in the readership who are huffing and puffing while breathing through their mouths “well, that 31% decrease in tablet shipments was made up for by robust PC sales, to equal that overall 1%”, I’m going to look into PC sales.
PERSONAL COMPUTERS
In April 2021, Gartner said “worldwide PC shipments totaled 69.9 million units in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 32% from the first quarter of 2020.” In July 2021, Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71.6 million units in the second quarter of 2021, an increase of 4.6% from the second quarter of 2020. That’s up 36.6% for the year. In October 2021, Gartner said “After five consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, the U.S. PC market declined 8.8% overall in the third quarter of 2021”. Wait, what? We just quoted Garner’s own new story from July 2021, which said that PC sales increased 4.6% in the second quarter of 2021. That’s single digit growth. So Gartner’s claim of “five consecutive quarters of double digit growth” is a bald-faced lie. I have exposed the duplicity of the Gartner Group by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
If you subtract 8.8% from 36.6%, you get a PC market up 27.8% for the year through the first three quarters of 2021. In January 2022, Gartner said “Worldwide PC shipments totaled 88.4 million units in the fourth quarter of 2021, a 5% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2020”.
Well, if that’s true, why does an IDC.com article from January 2022 say “Despite the PC market growing only 1% in Q4 2021, it could have done a lot better”.
With a straight face, IDC.com said that a PC market that had decreased by 5% in the 4th quarter of 2021, year over year had increased by 1%. IDC is lying bald-fadedly. I have exposed their duplicity by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
Adding up Gartner’s numbers, we get a 22.5% increase in the PC market in 2021, year-over-year. Well, if that’s true, then why does a zdnet.com article from January 2022 read “Gartner’s latest figures show 10% boost in 2021 PC sales”?
It’s not true. Gartner was lying bald-fadedly, all year long, quarter after quarter, inflating their numbers by roughly 100%. It’s the exact same thing I just documented above in smartphone sales, and then tablet sales. The Big Lies are put forward, quarter by quarter, and then, in propaganda terms, “walked back” as the lies become unsustainable, or, more correctly, the mouth-breathing, NPR-addicted populace forgets what’s been said ten minutes after it’s been said to them.
I have once again exposed the duplicity of the Gartner Group by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
