@danielwcooper here's the graph to show Acer's 2Q revenues are smallest since 2006 (source: Acer financials) pic.twitter.com/OeJGqhjgdn — Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) July 13, 2015

Gartner's cabal of sooth-sayers reported that PC shipments in the second three months of the year dropped by nearly 10 percent. Then again, that may not be as much of a cause for despair as you may think, since Windows 10 is launching on July 29th. It's likely that plenty of buyers have held-off on picking up a new machine until the new OS arrives, but probably not enough to return the industry to its heyday. In addition, that same report believes that Acer's chunk of the market shrunk by more than 20 percent since 2014 -- a year when the firm barely squeaked a profit. It remains to be seen if co-founder Stan Shih's much-trumpeted rescue attempt was a success or not, but Charles Arthur over at The Overspill doesn't think it was.