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I'm so tired of hearing about the "death of the PC." Yes, paradigms are changing. Technology is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives. Smartphones are changing the way we interact with internet. Tablets are changing the way we consume content. But what about the creators? I'm a firm believer that for the foreseeable future computers will be the king of content creation.

I'm the same. Technology isn't the zero-sum game it's made out to be --- there's a place in the market for both tablets and `traditional' PCs. There's also a not-tiny segment of the market that actively prefers laptops to tablets (I'm one of them).

When it comes to creating professional-quality work, I really think the tablet is a long, long way from being a viable replacement for the full-blown PC. It's almost impossible to imagine Game of Thrones being edited on iPads, for example. Taking it to the lower end of the market, even independent film-makers are likely to use a PC to edit their films, no matter how low-budget they may be. The same applies to music, too.

In an attempt to show that PC is still alive, I will point out that there no minorities in that picture.... Ok, bad joke.

Not sure why I want to make this parallel, but I feel like if a thing like Linux can last as long as it has, and looks like it will go on well in to the future, so will the PC.

Also, I find it interesting that while a laptop can do everything a PC does, even transform in to a PC with a docking station to give you a big monitor, keyboard, mouse, storage, etc, it has not wiped the PC out.

My worry is that PCs will begin to sell less and there for go up a lot in price. But, then that didn't happen in the face of laptops. So, Im not even slightly sure about that.

Ya, as usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

The PC industry has matured. Compare it, if you will, to those boring utility companies. Yes, they still do make a lot of money, but there's nothing inherently exciting about them.

microsoft today is one of those boring utility companies. Whenever I watch one of their ads full of young, energetic people dancing and clicking, I try to imagine my local water company trying to market itself this way, and I can't stop laughing at that point.

The future is Apple, Google, Mozilla, and a fourth company that hasn't yet been created.

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