Back in the late 1970s, as the chief executive and a co-founder of Apple, Mr. Jobs had presided over the birth of the PC industry, but then, after blockbuster sales of the iPhone and the iPad, he had taken to describing the tech business as entering the post-PC era. Did he really believe that desktop and laptop computers were going extinct? He reached for an analogy. When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that’s what you needed on the farm, Mr. Jobs said. But as farming died off and people in urban areas began to buy automobiles, the auto market split into distinct categories. There were easy to use, relatively maintenance-free cars for everyday drivers, and powerful, specialty vehicles like trucks for people who needed to get stuff done. Laptops and desktops are going to be like trucks, Mr. Jobs predicted. They’re still going to be around. They’re still going to have a lot of value. But they’re going to be used by one out of x people. - Farhad Manjoo I agree. I cant imagine not having a PC. And I have a Samsung Note 4 phablet and a 10.5 Samsung Galaxy Tab S tablet, so its not as though I dont have some pretty hefty computing power with me when Im on the go. But I just really like the big screen, the large keyboard, the oodles of storage, the really powerful all-purpose computing platform that you get when you buy a personal computer. How much do I like a big PC? Well, if I were forced to choose between a big PC or a big HDTV, Id choose the PC. And the point Jobs was making is that there are a lot of people just like me.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 13:44:02 +0000
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