This, and other "X is Dead" articles are not only unproductive, they are almost always wrong.

Let's consider other things that have been declared dead by journalists and bloggers in recent years.

1) Microsoft is dead: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

2) The PC/Desktop: http://www.thestrategyweb.com/desktop-is-dead-tablets-on-the...

3) CD's: http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2011/11/cds_are_dea...

4) DVD's: http://www.investmentu.com/2011/February/trans-world-enterta...

5) Linux on the Desktop: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/gnome-founder-says-deskto...

That's just a small sampling and each and every one is built on an incorrect premise. That premise is that technologies "die" when something better comes along.

This could not be farther from the truth. It is actually very rare when a new technology or device comes along which is so superior, so much more accessible, and so much more cost effective than its predecessor that the predecessor fades completely from view. In fact, it's so rare that I cannot think of a single example of this having occurred since Cassette tapes were upstaged by CD's.

Can you?