Comments on: Thus spake Steve Jobs: The PC isn’t dead yet

By: Arjun Kanuri

Arjun Kanuri — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:44:00 +0000

Today, I went to the beachfront with my children. I found a sea
shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She put the shell to her
ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched
her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is completely off topic but I had to tell
someone!

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In Depth: 10 things we wish Apple would reinvent « Tech News — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:11:07 +0000

[...] Steve Jobs famously hated the enterprise market, but unhappy white-collar workers really want Apple kit in their offices. The hot trend in IT these days is "consumerisation", where tech-savvy employees bring their iPads and iPhones to work; a recent study of IT professionals found that 87% of employees were using personal devices for work purposes, with iPhones particularly popular. [...]

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In Depth: 10 things we wish Apple would reinvent : Information Technology Leader — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:44:25 +0000

[...] Steve Jobs famously hated the enterprise market, but unhappy white-collar workers really want Apple kit in their offices. The hot trend in IT these days is “consumerisation”, where tech-savvy employees bring their iPads and iPhones to work; a recent study of IT professionals found that 87% of employees were using personal devices for work purposes, with iPhones particularly popular. [...]

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In Depth: 10 things we wish Apple would reinvent | Gadget Release — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:45:19 +0000

[...] Steve Jobs famously despised the enterprise m…, but miserable white-collar workers really want Apple kit in their offices. The hot trend in IT these days is "consumerisation", where tech-savvy employees bring their iPads and iPhones to work; a recent study of IT professionals found that 87% of employees were using personal devices for work purposes, with iPhones particularly well loved. [...]

By: Koje

Koje — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:03:02 +0000

I like your article…
thank you for sharing

By: fajar

fajar — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:45:06 +0000

great artcle

By: Daniel Nenni

Daniel Nenni — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:33:58 +0000

My opinion, Apple will back away from the MAC as a result of the Open Standards that have crept in.

http://danielnenni.com/2010/06/22/open-standards-apple-is-the-antichrist/

Fortunately the iSeries of products has brought Apple back home to proprietary technologies that consumers pay dearly for.

D.A.N.

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Intel’s bold bet against ARM: visionary or myopic? | Monday Note — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:50:31 +0000

[...] discussed here two weeks ago, the PC isn’t going away. But, as Mary Meeker sees it, a new era has begun and [...]

By: ikilobo

ikilobo — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:40:35 +0000

thx for info

By: TektonikShift

TektonikShift — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:21:55 +0000

PCs will be around for long time, but since ~ 2000 …PCs are no longer the center of innovation. Technology innovation is driven by the mobile industry.

Next up for Apple? Jobs is setting his sights on the home considering how & when to bring Apple experience to the big screen TV. My guess is 2011 or 2012 the latest.

btw – the view “Carriers (and operators) are orifices” – is a view shared with Google.

Tek

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legitimate online jobs — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:20:12 +0000

legitimate online jobs…

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By: yohan

yohan — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:54:13 +0000

nice post man

By: fjpoblam

fjpoblam — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:08:46 +0000

Louis Wheeler is no doubt right. I keep forgetting, in my paranoia, the difference between producers and consumers. Simple as that. There will always be a computer market for both, and a great number of folks are, simply, “consumers” without the power needs of “producers”. Thanks for reminding me!

By: Thus spake Steve Jobs: The PC isn’t dead yet : gobbits

Thus spake Steve Jobs: The PC isn’t dead yet : gobbits — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:17:43 +0000

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By: Henrik Holmegaard, technical writer

Henrik Holmegaard, technical writer — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:19:33 +0000

> HP’s example, but the latter has made it clear that they’ll use the newly-acquired Palm WebOS in devices such as printers.

HP has long supplied raster driver software and printer networking controllers with support for web server for remote printer management. Perhaps there is more to it than remote printer management, though.
/hh

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:07:57 +0000

versatility, simplicity, affordable price, and ease-of-use- that’s a netbook, bought by 30 million normal humans in 2009 and projected 50 million in 2010.

By: Louis Wheeler

Louis Wheeler — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:41:10 +0000

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about what is going on. Steve Jobs is right; The nature of the PC is changing. Like with Steve’s Trucks and Cars analogy; PC’s aren’t going away, but their forms and functions may change. Technology is mostly driving this, but not all.

Apple is attempting to satisfy a new market which potentially is much larger than the current stagnant computer market. This new growth will be in satisfying the needs of content consumers, not content producers. Many of these people are anti-technological, so any solution must satisfy their needs in a way that Netbooks and Desktops cannot now.

I read a recent poll which said that 27% of Americans (65% throughout the world) do not use a computer. Apple is setting out to lower that number greatly. How? By changing the way in which we react to a computer; this change is as profound as from moving from the command line to the GUI.

Another trend is the Computer-on-a-Chip. Apple is using, in the iPad and the new iPhone 4, the A4 CoC which has an ARM Cortex A8 processor. The Computer-on-a-Chip will become ubiquitous and very cheap; it will wind up in everything along with RFID. These computers must inter-communicate wirelessly. The iPad can easily act as a front end for a distributed system on a local area network, such as for TV downloads or controlling house systems.

The LAN, thus, becomes your computer. Although, most people won’t much more than the iPad, we are apt to see a series of special purpose devices to act as wireless peripherals, home servers, backups, mass storage, cameras, sensors, etc.

It seems likely that Apple has thought this new system through and is positioning itself to take advantage of coming trends. Microsoft is betting on the past; Google is betting on the Cloud and Apple is betting on distributed processing. It will be interesting to see who wins.

By: ranggaw0636

ranggaw0636 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:46:41 +0000

@Barton
you don’t have to wait that long :p

By: Barton Chittenden

Barton Chittenden — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:08:12 +0000

I’m guessing that eventually we’ll have a smart phone which will dock with a keyboard and (suitably huge) monitor, and that will be a desktop computer. I’d give it 5 years, tops.

By: Gabriel Radic

Gabriel Radic — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:54:02 +0000

I read this up to the point where you refer to Job’s interview at D8 2010. You probably need to watch again his interview from D8 in 2003, where he ditches on …tablets. Jobs is either lying or clueless; in any case we shouldn’t give s**t on anything he says. If, only if, we escape the RDF before he opens his mouth

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:53:52 +0000

Agreed – that Lyons article was utter clickbait.

Apple have to be one of the most deliberate companies on earth – when’s the last time they really sidelined a major product line (the G4 Cube?). Besides, the Mac is outrageously profitable. Just nonsense, Lyons.

That said, I hope a few innovations of the “Post PC” trickle up to the Mac – frankly, if I could extend my battery life by working on my Macbook Pro in something like iOS’s carefully tailored multitasking, I’d go for it. An App Store for OSX would be a huge boon for the platform – Jobs has shot down the idea (in fan e-mails) but I hope to see it.

By: Brian S Hall

Brian S Hall — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:13:17 +0000

The smartphone is the computer.
The PC is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet.
Computing devices are becoming so powerful and so cheap, relative to just 10 years ago, that we can have multiple devices optimized for specific needs.

By: nojo

nojo — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:35:07 +0000

There’s a nice original G4 gathering dust under my desk. It’s gathering dust because my MBP finally took over its utility, including light video editing. And for the past couple of months, my MBP has been frequently sitting idle while I read and write blogs (and watch the occasional SJ video) from the couch on my iPad.

Still need the MBP to do actual work, of course. But a lot of what I do on a computer isn’t work, and haven’t really enjoyed doing it on a computer to begin with. The PC’s not dead, it’s just… resting. Beautiful plumage, though.

By: ken1w

ken1w — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:27:28 +0000

The popularity of iPod, iPhone, and iPad are the reasons why Apple’s Mac business will continue to grow every year. The “halo effect” was first observed with the overwhelming success of iPods (and iTunes), even back when Macs where PowerPC-based. The transition to Intel in 2006 removed one major mental obstacle for Windows PC users “switching,” and the introduction of iPhone in 2007 further enhanced the “halo.”

Now, iPad creates a brand new surge of first-time Apple customers; it won’t be long before most of them are considering a Mac to replace their aging Windows XP machines. Yes, you still need a computer that runs iTunes nearby to set up, sync, and maintain an iPad.

> Is Apple ignoring its signature line of computers and laptops? Yup.

I don’t see how anyone (who is not a moron) can say Apple is ignoring its Mac business, when it just recently significantly upgraded its MacBook and MacBook Pro models (the core of the Mac business). iMacs were updated less than one year ago with an amazing 27-inch model. And the latest Mac OS X release, Snow Leopard, is still only about 8-9 months old. In the last completed quarter, Mac sales grew more than 30% compared to the previous year. Yup, it sure sounds like Apple is ignoring its Mac business.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:15:31 +0000

I am a power user and for me iPad looks under powered and can not serve my heavy lifting needs. But there are lot of other people who don’t need Windows.