I, Cringely . Bob's Predictions . Internet-Centric Devices Start to Replace PCs

January 4, 2008

Internet-Centric Devices Start to Replace PCs

The personal computer will decline (or continue its decline) as our key IT platform, replaced slowly by Internet-centric devices of all kinds from phones to TVs to PDAs. Everything will BE a PC of course, but we won't call them that.

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