Alt Digital

@MaxRogo Rocks The House
Wow, what a great, well written, STORY about the rise and fall of the PC business by Mark Rogowsky for Forbes. Mark creates a vivid and apt analogy between the once powerful PC and dinosaurs.

Mark's piece even locates the flash of the big bang that led to extinction - Microsoft's release of Windows 7 only weeks before Apple's iPad changed everything for PC manufacturers.

It is not JUST that Apple's iPad is selling like hot cakes. It is also that we are mobile and don't care about the latest version of windows. The death of the PC may herald another bigger decline for the concept of operating systems themselves.

When everything is an app we don't think of "operating systems" in the same way. Here is a favorite paragraph from Mark's excellent post:

But the death of the PC isn’t just about tablets; it’s also about smartphones and the developing world, too. For many people, “computers” are the devices in their pocket, not laptops and desktops. The very things about tablets and smartphones that techies like to criticize (you can only get software from “app stores”; you can’t customize the devices as much as you want) are the very things that make them easier to maintain and use and less prone to viruses and crashes that people tolerated on PCs but certainly never enjoyed.

Kudos to Mark! And prepare for more astroid strikes ahead.