Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Too Soon For A PC Requiem

Eight calender quarters have passed since the article "The Death of the PC" dated December 28, 2009, showed up at Forbes.com (see http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1228/technology-virtualization-vmware-wyse.html).

I do not think the PC will go away. It will simply be more expensive relative to cloud computing for many of the same reasons as driving your car with customized options costs more than taking a bus.

Will cloud computing have a market share? Absolutely. A big one, especially in the developing world. It may even be subsidized by governments without freedom of speech to observe and control its people and by governments with freedom of speech to observe and control terrorism.

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