Fox News Says The PC is Dead!
It was fun while it lasted, but as of 2011 the era of the desktop computer is officially over. At least that’s the overriding message of last week’s gadget and gear extravaganza in Las Vegas known as the Consumer Electronics Show: The PC is dead. In fact, smartphones alone are already overtaking desktop PCs. Analysts at research firm Gartner estimate that smartphones will total 1.82 billion by 2013, eclipsing 1.78 billion desktop and laptop computers.
In this iPhone-crazed, connected-TV obsessed, high-speed Internet world, the desktop computer is no longer relevant. All those reams of desk-bound e-mail have given way to terse texts from Blackberries. Those zippy, graphics-intensive games are now the domain of consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Even balancing a checkbook has left the PC and gone to the mobile handset. Indeed, just about every type of digital chore and entertainment has moved on from the desktop. But it shouldn’t be a surprise that the desktop’s days are over. Most people really never needed a desktop computer.
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