Hi BIlly, On Jan 12, 2014, at 5:22 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> W Post > > Reports of the PC’s death have been greatly exaggerated, readers argue > > • By Andrea Peterson > > • January 12, 2014 > > Every week we like to reflect on the great conversations readers are having > at the Switch -- here are some of our favorites from this week. Timothy B. > Lee boldly declared the PC dead. But not everyone was swayed by his argument. > Reader JLF1976 disagreed: > > The PC is not dead, it just isn't the primary tool for the masses to do > trivial things like log onto facebook. If you are just a "consumer", then > yeah, you might not need a PC. But someone still has to produce all that > content you are consuming. And they aren't compiling code on tablets and > xboxes. That’s a really silly way to frame the argument. Nobody is saying that PCs are disappearing. Anymore than mainframes disappeared when mini and microcomputers appeared. But the simple fact is that the PC dominated computing for 2-3 decades, and now it doesn’t. And the PC market is collapsing due to tablets, considerably faster than even I expected: http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/apple-sees-corporate-business-grow-as-pc-market-declines.html/?a=viewall The analysts are trying to spin this as a temporary slump; but they’ve been saying that for years... > > There is a paradigm shift, but its only putting the PC back into the hands of > people that use them. > > And robin510 wrote: > > I am an appellate lawyer. I use my PC to conduct legal research, write briefs > and e-file them with the federal courts. Also to send and check e-mail. I > can't read complex, lengthy documents on the screen so I print them out. What > device can do this better than a PC? Wait, he can’t even read lengthy documents on a PC? He sounds like he needs a tablet. :-) — Ernie P. > > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
