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" The PC era was about to end." Not bothering to read the rest. This is entirely 100% wrong. The PC era has not "ended". It's just that we only upgrade every f
by jbb555 10y ago
" The PC era was about to end."
Not bothering to read the rest. This is entirely 100% wrong. The PC era has not "ended". It's just that we only upgrade every few years instead of every year. And grandma now reads her email on a tablet instead but that was never what PCs were really for.
PCs are still just as much used as ever. We just use other things too, and don't buy a new one every year.
If they can't get this basic fact right then I have no hope for the rest of the article.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoPost PC never meant "no PC," it just meant the end of the PC as a growth market. There is still money to be had in the market, but it is all rather predictable and boring now. When you are a company looking at getting your profits and stock price up, that is important, especially for Intel.
- lovemenot 10y agoI disagree. The PC era ended when the PC was no longer the dominant computing platform. We can argue on dates specific markets etc. Eras are ill-defined, but if you can assert that we once were in a PC era, you must also accept a definition that allows, in principle, for an end to an era. The dominant platform of its era is the one with the greatest user and developer person hours, sales volume, zeitgeist and so on. We are in the mobile era.
- arielb1 10y agoPCs are still used more than mobile. It's just that the average person had bought a Pentium 4 PC running XP a decade ago and is not going to upgrade it until it breaks. PCs are now a mature technology, just like cars, and have the resulting long lifecycle. Smartphones are also getting into this stage.