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# Evening Scan
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-10-13-pm/
- Published: 2026-10-13T23:20:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T23:20:19.000Z
- Description: The smartphone and PC trackers all landed today, and the picture is grim: shipments are sliding hard even as Apple and Samsung grab bigger slices of a shrinking pie. Amazon is reportedly shopping for a very expensive AI acquisition, and Meta shipped its first frontier model.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-pm, #scan

The smartphone and PC trackers all landed today, and the picture is grim: shipments are sliding hard even as Apple and Samsung grab bigger slices of a shrinking pie. Amazon is reportedly shopping for a very expensive AI acquisition, and Meta shipped its first frontier model.

> **20.1%** — Year-over-year drop in Q3 PC shipments, to 62.7 million units. *(IDC via Slashdot)*

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#### [Q3 2026 Was Historically Bad For PC Shipments](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/10/12/0134221/q3-2026-was-historically-bad-for-pc-shipments?utm%5Fsource=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm%5Fmedium=feed)

IDC recorded its worst Q3 decline on record. *(Slashdot)*

#### [Apple Captures Record 22% Q3 Smartphone Market Share](https://hypebeast.com/2026/10/apple-captures-record-22-q3-smartphone-market-share?ref=adjacent.media)

Market-share gains mean less when the whole market is shrinking 20%, but a record is a record. *(Hypebeast)*

#### [Amazon In Talks To Buy AI Startup Decart For Around $7 Billion](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/10/12/0059238/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-ai-startup-decart-for-around-7-billion?utm%5Fsource=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm%5Fmedium=feed)

Up to $7B for a startup signals Amazon doesn't want to be late to this one. *(Slashdot)*

#### [Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/12/meta-releases-its-first-frontier-model-muse-wonder/?ref=adjacent.media)

Muse Spark was the lightweight, low-latency opener; Wonder is the bigger, more capable follow-up. *(TechCrunch)*

#### [Blur to shut down frontend next month as NFT trading volume dwindles](https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2026-10-12-blur-nft-marketplace-shutting-down-frontend-blend-418363?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

The NFT marketplace is turning off the lights on its frontend while the protocol lives on onchain. The BLUR token fell more than 20%. *(The Block)*