PC Market Recovery? What PC Market Recovery?

This article
<https://www.computerworld.com/article/3959350/apples-macs-are-powering-the-pc-markets-recovery.html>
quotes a Canalys research report to claim that “Apple’s Macs are
powering the PC market’s recovery”.

If you look at the Canalys report
<https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/worldwide-pc-shipments-q1-2025>, it
does seem like there has been an uptick compared to a year ago. But if
you compare over the past three years, you will see that the overall
trend remains downwards. In 2022, there was (near as I can estimate)
something like 300 million PCs sold. Whereas over the last 4 quarters,
that has fallen to less than 260 million.

Further back over the years, I can remember when it was higher than
that. There was a time when Intel was shipping about 360 million x86
chips per year -- about a million per day. Those times are gone.