{"id":22660,"date":"2018-09-06T15:44:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T19:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22660"},"modified":"2018-09-11T15:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:29:30","slug":"the-post-pc-era-never-really-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/the-post-pc-era-never-really-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Post-PC Era” Never Really Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Lowenstein<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Tablets have had a good run, but sales have tailed off of late. I’d say they’ve had greater influence on the evolution<\/em> of the smartphone and the PC, rather than leading to a significantly different nomenclature for what most of us carry around today. My Techpinions colleague Ben Bajarin says that Creative Strategies surveys indicate that only about 10% of tablet users have ‘replaced their PC’ — a number that has held steady for several years. And that 10% is concentrated in a handful of industries, such as real estate and construction. PC sales aren’t exactly surging, but they’re steady. Your average white collar professional today still carries around a smartphone and a laptop, with the tablet being an ancillary device, used primarily for media\/content consumption.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

And if anything, the tablet segment might fall off somewhat, squeezed by bigger and more functional phones on one end, and by more versatile laptops on the other end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Previously: Post PC Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-09-07): Zac Cichy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Alternatively: post-pc happened, but the phone was underestimated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

James O’Leary<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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this is why I rant about Apple’s laptop story - it’s not that they’re fundamentally broken, it’s that devotion to the iPad as laptop story has them easily<\/em> 2-3 years behind Windows + ChromeOSJames O’Leary added,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Damien Petrilli<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is why doubling down on iOS could be a problem for Apple: macos and Mac hardware lagging behind with all resources invested in a dead end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Ben Szymanski<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Imagine if Apple had invested all of the effort they put in to make try and make the iPad line replace desktop computing, into the Mac line and keeping that up to date.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Colin Cornaby<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Seems like Apple’s post-PC era is about not trusting users. Don’t let users have the option of buying a modular Mac. Don’t let users have the option of running touch unfriendly software on a tablet.<\/p>\n

The existence of these things would not hurt Apple. But they think we’re dumb.<\/p>\n

I keep thinking about the declining tablet sales numbers, but what I want to know is if those numbers count convertibles.<\/p>\n

Convertibles trust the user to make choices. You can run any software. You can run it as a laptop or a tablet. You’re trusted to make choices.<\/p>\n

Every modern Apple device seems to be an exercise in single function purity. It’s simply absurd to me I have to buy a laptop AND a tablet. But Apple is so concerned about me not understanding touch vs. mouse that they sell them as different devices.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Zac Cichy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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No one did. The larger point is that everything iPad was meant to take over actually turned out to be iPhone. Beyond the wildest dreams of the PC.<\/p>\n

This is a post-PC world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It would disingenuous of me to say I’m not a little disappointed with the glacial progress tablets have seen in the last few years. After years of explosive growth, things have cooled down quite a bit. The iPad is staying mostly level, with some growth over the past year, but Android tablets are turning to dust in the wind. In the Windows world, tablets are far more rare than laptops with touch screens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

See also: Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-09-10): See also: Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-09-11): Eugene Belinski<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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8 years ago, people would buy $1000 computers and $100 flip phones. Now they’d buy $800 smartphones and $200 chromebooks.<\/p>\n

It’s amazing how much the utility of phones and computers have realigned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: Chrome OS Is Set to Expand Beyond the Education Market<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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