What The Tablet Can Do To PC...
The PC as we know it is competing with itself. However, the competition is in a form that delivers the modern needs of most modern users. Truly, the current generation's exposure to mobile gadgets over the years have broken the barrier between mobility and the typical, or classic, PC experience.
Around 20+ years ago, the PC was an appliance. It occupies a sweet spot at home along with the printer and networking watchamacallits, usually installed close to the home's landline phone unit. Content sharing was mostly via floppy disks or diskettes.
It was "hip" to carry a laptop or notebook, which were much more expensive.
Nowadays, it is normal for young kids to be exposed to tablets first before the classic mouse and click PCs. The new generation now identifies PCs, as in Personal Computers per se, as those that can be easily carried around, tapped and pinched.
Microsoft's hybrid tablet/laptop strategy has paid off. The tablet that can replace the PC is selling well and is in good business. Copycats have likewise flooded the market, including Apple's iPad Pro. Is the desktop PC dead? Is PC dead? PC as our generation knows it, perhaps, but the new designs of mobile PCs are the next generation's definition of what a PC is and should be.
All signs point to a fact that no industry leader should ignore: The PC of the future is mobile. Around the world, there are now more mobile users than there are PC users. Many companies are switching to more mobile strategies for their workforce. This is important to watch. The trend cannot be ignored. We are now entering a period when the PC is being redefined for the next generation, and the next, and the next after that. Manufacturers should not let themselves be left behind. A new PC per se is in order. The tablet PC, pure or hybrid, is the form factor that the future decision makers will invest for.
Around 20+ years ago, the PC was an appliance. It occupies a sweet spot at home along with the printer and networking watchamacallits, usually installed close to the home's landline phone unit. Content sharing was mostly via floppy disks or diskettes.
It was "hip" to carry a laptop or notebook, which were much more expensive.
Nowadays, it is normal for young kids to be exposed to tablets first before the classic mouse and click PCs. The new generation now identifies PCs, as in Personal Computers per se, as those that can be easily carried around, tapped and pinched.
Microsoft's hybrid tablet/laptop strategy has paid off. The tablet that can replace the PC is selling well and is in good business. Copycats have likewise flooded the market, including Apple's iPad Pro. Is the desktop PC dead? Is PC dead? PC as our generation knows it, perhaps, but the new designs of mobile PCs are the next generation's definition of what a PC is and should be.
All signs point to a fact that no industry leader should ignore: The PC of the future is mobile. Around the world, there are now more mobile users than there are PC users. Many companies are switching to more mobile strategies for their workforce. This is important to watch. The trend cannot be ignored. We are now entering a period when the PC is being redefined for the next generation, and the next, and the next after that. Manufacturers should not let themselves be left behind. A new PC per se is in order. The tablet PC, pure or hybrid, is the form factor that the future decision makers will invest for.
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