PC sales see 'longest decline' in history

[Geek-9pm]

BC:

Obvious means self-evident. There is no archaic definition except for that which exists in your own mind.

No, the old meaning is to be in front of an object.
So smartphones are obviously making PCs archaic.

[BC_Programmer]

BC:No, the old meaning is to be in front of an object.

"Plain; evident; easily discovered, seen or understood;"

Some definitions from the 1920's and earlier define it as "opposing".

None I could find define it as being in front of an object.

[evilfantasy]

You're way off on how and why things are displayed the way they are. It has little to do with what may be more popular and more to do with security and loss prevention.

The televisions are on the very back wall. Doesn't mean they are no longer popular. They are just very hard to steal. Everything displayed is carefully planned out and is where it is due to space, convenience and most importantly for security. You need a lot of display space for the multitude of mobile devices and cameras offered but that isn't the biggest reason why they are front and center. Thieves would be cleaning out cases and cases of devices if they were stored where the laptops are. Laptops and networking hardware (at Walmart) is usually displayed close together. Laptops are hard to conceal so they aren't as much of a target for theft but grouping laptops and networking merchandise together gives loss prevention the opportunity to watch everything on one or two cameras. Also isolating high risk merchandise makes it harder to steal. Same goes for displaying it front and center. Harder to steal.

[Geek-9pm]

Good. Back on topic.
When the say  "PC sales" is almost always means Desktop or Laptop computers.
Microsoft is putting its money on the tablet. It is actually  the Surface.
As you know, Surface is the name of their tablet. Microsoft does not have any PCs like desktops or laptops. 
Here is a new story:
Microsoft channel program will push Surface to businesses
This means the MS does not think there is any point in trying to do a laptop for the business people. Does this go against conventional wisdom?  Would the business community accept a tablet over a laptop? Well, MS thinks  that is an opportunity.
Would Bill Gates say "It is obvious"?

[Salmon Trout]

Microsoft is putting its money on the tablet. It is actually  the Surface.

I thought everybody would have seen all the news stories about Microsoft writing off 900 million dollars (nearly a BILLION DOLLARS) just this last week, because the Surface RT failed miserably. Their shares took a drop of 12.2 percent, representing the
biggest single-day drop in over 13 years.

[Geek-9pm]

representing the
biggest single-day drop in over xx years.

Who said that?
Actually, that applies to a number of economic realities.
If you say 2 years, or 7 years or 33 years; for some segment it has been the worst ever this year or last. The truth is that world economics is entering, or falling, into a new era of uncertainly along with rapid gains and failures.
Apple, Blueberry, Microsoft, Intel and other have had bad news.
Here is a headline from early this month.
BlackBerry shares plunged 28 percent on Friday in 13 years
Three days ago, as posted above y Salmon Trout
Microsoft Experiences Its Biggest Drop Of The Century ... 12 Percent
Back in April
Gold Suffers Its Biggest One Day Loss In 33 Years!
Also Dow Jones Industrial Average All-Time Largest One Day Gains and Losses. Which are mostly in the past five years. The Down Jones is considered the standard indicator for the US stock market.

Therefore, don't imagine that bad PC sales means the end of out world. Even if PC sale where doing fine, a lot of everything else would fall apart anyway. But is their a correlation? Yes!

Did I mention the city of Detroit is bankrupt?

Therefore Geek9pm predicts that when half of the world economy hist the trash can,  we will read about it on smartphones. And we will lament: 'Oh, it was because they were using PCs and did not keep up with the trend. Too bad!"

[Salmon Trout]

You know, Geek, I think you may be right.

[BC_Programmer]

Currently my Mouth has more coffee in it than it has ever had in the last 10 minutes. What this means for the economic future is uncertain.

[patio]

And i haven't had a pomegranate in over 2 months now...

[Geek-9pm]

And i haven't had a pomegranate in over 2 months now...

WOW! I haven't had one for over a year.
Are they going off the market?
Will kiwi fruit  replace them?

[evilfantasy]

Well the Internet did begin to die 5 years ago. http://www.dailytech.com/Mark+Cuban+Claims+Internet+Is+Dead/article11287.htm He should know since it made him filthy rich...