2026-09-17
14 分钟Hello everyone and welcome to EnglishPod.
My name is Marco.
My name is Catherine,
and today we have part two of a very important and very valuable series about giving presentations.
That's right.
As you well know, we started this series.
It's a 10-part series, and today we're going to talk about sales and charts
and graphs and more or less explaining maybe a PowerPoint presentation.
That's right.
So you're going to learn some wonderful ways of talking about changes in markets and marketing.
As all of you are well aware, competition in the laptop computer sector is intense.
We continue to fight with our competitors for market share,
and this is the case both in the developed markets in the West,
as well as more developing markets in Asia and Africa.
You may ask yourself, why is this market so cutthroat?
Well, the answer is simple.
There is a huge untapped potential market out there, with a huge untapped potential for profit.
If I bring up the first graph here, it shows the increase in terms of number of computer owners across the globe.
As you can see, in the 1980s, computer ownership amounted to around 0.5% of the total world population.
Since the 1990s, computer ownership has risen dramatically.