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I think we're in a post-PC era. Yes, I spend my work days on a laptop. But most of my personal computing happens on an iPhone or an iPad. I think that PCs (and
by scott_s 11y ago
I think we're in a post-PC era. Yes, I spend my work days on a laptop. But most of my personal computing happens on an iPhone or an iPad. I think that PCs (and laptops) will increasingly become "things we do work on" and smartphones and tablets will become "things we consume stuff on". A lot of PC sales, I think, were coming from people buying them for personal use to consume stuff. That market is changing.
- kirykl 11y agoOn the consumer side its possibly back to a shared PC era. Instead of multiple PCs per household, just one PC to do work that's about 5 years old, and each person has their own annually updated phone/tablet for everything else.
- Splines 11y agoOn top of that productivity app companies are chasing mobile in order to not get left out in the cold, further exacerbating the PC decline.
- emmab 11y agoThey're so much slower to interface with though. I couldn't live without keyboard shortcuts.