“PCs are going to be like trucks

“PCs are going to be like trucks"

Steve Jobs in 2010:

“When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.

PCs are going to be like trucks. They are still going to be around…they are going to be one out of x people…

When I am going to write that 35-page analyst report, I am going to want my Bluetooth keyboard. That’s 1 percent of the time. The software will get more powerful. I think your vision would have to be pretty short to think these can’t grow into machines that can do more things, like editing video, graphic arts, productivity. You can imagine all of these content creation possibilities on these kind of things. Time takes care of lots of these things.”

This year, about five times as many smartphones will be shipped versus PCs, and tablets will surpass PCs for the first time. According to Jobs, the right way to look at this isn’t that mobile devices are creating a new market. It’s that mobile devices are relegating PCs to special-purpose, mostly industrial devices.

#Tech #mobile #ipad #smartphones #smartphone #iphone #PCs #personal computers #microsoft #apple

2 months ago

Comments & Reactions

courtenaybird's comments powered by Disqus

125 notes

avanlim reblogged this from courtenaybird
avanlim likes this
sioux-me reblogged this from parislemon and added:

I think this is really true. There are very few times when you really need a full PC for your computing needs. We spend...
puffywalks likes this
volratibsuns1981 likes this
shulgaalexey likes this
fiftyshadesofllama reblogged this from emergentfutures
kingofherrings likes this
vertigoremedy likes this
i11matic likes this
z-bra likes this
1000wattbursts reblogged this from emergentfutures
webiverse reblogged this from emergentfutures
lauriefait reblogged this from emergentfutures
lauriefait likes this
boscothemigh likes this
turbosaurusrex likes this
thisisreallykevin likes this
tolgakavak likes this
eightbit-hd reblogged this from emergentfutures
samjcross likes this
staticonthesignal reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:

This is a pretty good simile.
staticonthesignal likes this
vagrantvoyeur likes this
infinitefruit likes this
hoangmaicorp likes this
memeengine likes this
tribulationsarego likes this
monceever reblogged this from emergentfutures
maneatingbadger reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:

Which is what they were to begin with, if you think about it. Circle of life.
emergentfutures reblogged this from courtenaybird
moonhowler56 reblogged this from parislemon
jhwallace likes this
unevenly-distributed reblogged this from parislemon
dereckie reblogged this from parislemon
dereckie likes this
jadisinteractive reblogged this from parislemon
jadisinteractive likes this
heathercasey1980 likes this
revolutionary-suicidde likes this
j12d reblogged this from parislemon
daseinxy reblogged this from courtenaybird
daseinxy likes this
qrxbz likes this
benmundt likes this
tylerneilson reblogged this from parislemon
techemotions likes this
fishstickmonkey likes this
rnakamoto reblogged this from courtenaybird
crogawski reblogged this from parislemon
Show more notesLoading...