Oh if you don't believe it, I don't care. It's only my concern that you not make a dumb case against the word "decline" based on a common sense parsing. Yet we

Oh if you don't believe it, I don't care. It's only my concern that you not make a dumb case against the word "decline" based on a common sense parsing. Yet we aren't going to see the sales drop by 50% anytime soon. For example, the idea that a one-time 50% drop is the definition of a decline. In fact, just last year shipments were down 12% year over year: http://m.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324695104578414973888155516?mobile=y http://m.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324695104578414973... That's just one article. You can try googling "laptop sales year over year" and seeing what comes back. Nobody who knows anything denies that the industry is in decline. But then again, HN's cadre of Ron Paul voters are known to deny basic economic realities based purely on wishful thinking, so you're hardly alone.