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by jpxxx 4812 days ago
Basically, PCs are dumb, boring work terminals for old people.

Children coming of computing age when the iPhone was released are now 9 years old, perhaps on their second or third portable gaming device, and lobbying their parents for an iPhone.

What on Earth would they possibly want a slow, dirty, heavy keyboard computer for? You can't even take a picture with it unless it's an Apple.
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SkyMarshal 4812 days ago
A keyboard? How quaint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=JS...

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pyre 4812 days ago 

  | Basically, PCs are dumb, boring work
  | terminals for old people.
Or that kid down the street that used his laptop to get something into the AppStore, and is actually making money...
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hyperbovine 4812 days ago
A laptop is an anti-PC. I'm lost...
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pyre 4812 days ago
A PC is a "Personal Computer," though traditionally it only refers to IBM-compatible computers (or "a Windows machine" if in the context of Mac vs PC).

This "moving to mobile devices" debate seems to put "PC" in the context of "desktop and laptop computers" vs "tablets and smart phones" with ChromeBooks in a kind of middle-ground.

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