Are We Now In The Post-Post-PC Era?

A longtime and thoroughgoing laptop aficionado, I was more than a little dismayed by Steve Jobs’s declaration back in 2010 when he sprang the iPad on an unsuspecting world. that we’d entered a “post-PC era, and prognostications from various quarters that tablets would replace the laptop for a majority of users. I’ve since made my peace with the iPad, and find it hard to imagine how I ever got along without one, but I also can’t imagine getting along without my laptops.

Indeed, I would be out of business with no PC, since the iPad is literally incapable of doing several things that my work requires.

So I agree with Forbes’ Marco Chiappetta who contends that we should “stop all of the Post-PC nonsense once and for all”, noting that while the PC market has has been declining and the PC installed base shrinking as buyers switched to tablets and smartphones for entertainment and social media consumption, and those devices have swallowed up large portions of technology budgets over the past couple of years-in both the enterprise and consumer spaces, it doesn’t mean PCs are going to disappear.

Indeed, he observes that in 2014 we are seeing a slowdown in premium tablet sales, and that PCs are now growing off a smaller installed base of newer devices, with more engaged users, PC makers HP, Dell , Asus, Lenovo all showing increased shipments year over year.

Chiappetta says PCs are necessary to get complex work done and that will remain the case for the foreseeable future.

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