Re: What PC death spiral?
Home users can use tablets and smart phones for content consumption all they want. Businesses aren't switching their Cube farm occupying knowledge workers to Tablets over PC's or laptops that cost less and do a lot more. The bean counters won't allow it. Managers and Supervisors? Sure. Tablet or smartphone. Cube farm workers will be using PC's for quite some time to come. This "death of the PC" nonsense started around 1998 when the "Java Station"/thin client was supposed to take over. Thing is, businesses weren't willing to invest in overly expensive server infrastructure to do the heavy lifting, as well as the staff to manage that infrastructure. Want to watch movies and listen to music? Those tablets and smart phones are great. Want to get some work done at your cube farm job? They won't be buying you a tablet to do that with.
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