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> Steve Jobs’ vaunted, much quoted ‘Post-PC Era’. Actually this traces back to an aside by Steve Jobs, where speaking of the iPad he said "we think these are p
by Isamu 8y ago
> Steve Jobs’ vaunted, much quoted ‘Post-PC Era’.
Actually this traces back to an aside by Steve Jobs, where speaking of the iPad he said "we think these are post-PC devices, we really do".
This was immediately taken to be a statement that he felt that PC was going away, rather than that the devices were not trying to be PCs in a new form factor, but something post-PC.
People should have gotten a clue when Apple did not stop selling laptops and desktops.
- nradov 8y agoBut Apple has reduced their R&D investment in laptops and desktops, at least on a relative basis. They haven't updated their "pro" desktop line in years. I suspect they will eventually offer a more powerful line of iOS devices to address content creation use cases, and gradually phase out the legacy MacOS product line. Unifying their product lines around a single OS would eventually deliver a lot of savings.