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Moves by HP, Google further marginalize the traditional PC
- brudgers 15y ago>Google Chairman Eric Schmidt put it bluntly last week at a cloud conference here: He said tech had exhausted the limits of the PC as a platform, and the future would center on mobile devices. "The PC market has become commoditized," says Forrester Research analyst Sarah Rotman Epps. The automobile industry is highly commoditized, yet continues to innovate with hybrids and electrics - not to mention the commoditization of the mobile phone market which is conveniently ignored (and perhaps cynically ignored as well given Google's role in commoditizing the current generation of devices). While it is possible that one day there will be no computers in the cubicles of the world's office parks, absent a coherent argument showing why businesses will shift from computers to mobile devices en masse, the argument seems tenuous. Yes, the consumer space is changing and that's all Google really has a meaningful presence in [a smattering of small businesses aside]. There is nothing surprising about HP's move, it is pretty much an attempt to repeat IBM's act of twenty years ago.
- eokuma 15y agoYeah I concur. Not sure if it's ever possible for businesses to shift from computers to mobile devices completely imho; only time will tell.