On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The Mac as we know it-a full featured personal computer-is slowly >> going away, to be replaced by ever more mobile and increasingly >> capable devices. > > This might very well happen for a lot of casual uses, so I don't disagree > with the notion that iPad could cannibalize some portion of Mac sales. But > these various little things aren't going to replace > real computers for doing real work any time soon. It's not so much the > capabilities as the physical interface. I am NOT going to spend all day every > day squinting at a tiny screen and typing on a tiny > fake keyboard. I can't see many office workers wanting to work that way, > either. I agree that a lot of computer work needs a full blown machine. However, it could well be that Macs will eventually be mostly relegated to professional level work environments and that such things as the iMac and the larger MacBook portables will slowly disappear from home and casual usage settings. Mac Pro machines, the quad and eight core computers could continue, but Apple's "consumer" computers may well be discontinued or become morphed into iOS based devices with portability in mind. Simple computers running mostly simple applications for users who just want to keep it simple. Apple could become primarily the purveyor of computing devices for the masses who mostly just want to do Facebook, e-mail, Twitter, some browsing, looking at photos and videos and making a lot of phone calls. As to tiny or small screens, that appears to me to be no barrier at all to the younger computer users of today. These folks appear to relish watching movies or viewing photos on 2 inch screens or browsing the internet with cell phones or typing on keyboards that have keys the size of a Tic-Tac. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
