The relegation to a niche of desktop computers at the hand of tablets and cell phones is supposed to evoke the death of Apple II at the hands of Mac? This comp

The relegation to a niche of desktop computers at the hand of tablets and cell phones is supposed to evoke the death of Apple II at the hands of Mac? This comparison is false in at least two dimensions: complete death versus relegation to a niche, and a product family versus a form factor. The Apple II brand was being replaced by a new generation of fundamentally similar and fundamentally more advanced products; its death was foreordained by Apple. The devices that will kill desktop computers don't exist yet, nobody is sure how deeply the desktop market will be eroded by tablets, and Apple shows no desire to abandon the Mac's share of the desktop market. What similarity are we supposed to observe here?