PC is dead. Again. WSJ radio says.

[Geek-9pm]

So many times have you read this headline:' The PC Is Dead'.
This morning I was listening to the radio and heard a blurb on the Wall Street Journal Radio, and they said it again. Is there any truth in this? And does it really matter?
First of all, we need to think about what is a good definition of the PC. If we think of a personal computer like we had in the late 80s and early 90s, thin we would say that that kind of PC is no longer with us.
Perhaps the point the Wall Street Journal is trying to make is that we no longer have a platform where many small companies can participate in producing a useful device at a low cost that could be used by almost anybody can do almost anything. Today there is so much vertical entry creation that the value of a PC has been lost.
Somebody went so far to say that the official time of death was when Steve Jobs announced the new thing called the I iPad. Of course it was not a new idea. But if it really works good it would change the way we do things. That has not happened yet. Yet people had been making this remark for some time. Like the past 10 years.
Checking for the Wall Street Journal radio website I was not able to find a transcript of this morning's program. But I do recall he made quite a bit about pronouncing the PC has been dead because of the changes that have taken place in the vertical integration. Can somebody find that link?

Here is a link that was posted a month ago by someone else.
http://www.tnr.com/article/the-pc-officially-died-today

[evilfantasy]

In some countries the main source of Internet is by cell phone. So if you consider that I could see someone thinking that these alternate ways of getting to the WWW might be the future.

IMHO the PC will not go away for many years. There are way too many out there and in a business environment you can't get by using a cell phone or mini anything. You have to have the flexibility that only an actual computer offers.

[rthompson80819]

Somewhere around here I still have a Palm 5 PDA although I haven't used it in years.  I bought a spreadsheet program for it that would link to a PC and I could download spreadsheets I created on a PC.  I thought it was a good idea at the time.

The screen size was similar to a lot of the smart phones of today.  I quickly found out that spreadsheets on a screen that size were very difficult to use and almost totally useless.

It seems a lot of journalists are impressed by the IPad just because it's from Apple.  Tablets have been around for at least 10 years, and touch screens date back to the late 60s.

[patio]

Interesting...
This morning both of my PC's reported the Wall Street Journal is dead...

[Computer Hope Admin]

Interesting...
This morning both of my PC's reported the Wall Street Journal is dead...

Heh, so true.