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Posted on 08/23/2010 4:29:31 AM PDT by Swordmaker
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An iPad is more like an “appliance” than a PC. An 8-bit CPM box from 1981 has a more accessible operating system. If it is a PC, then so is an iPod Touch.
...and so do most smartphones today, but we do not count them as PCs!
The lines are blurring between products, which is good for everyone, and will continue to blur as time goes on.
To get caught up in minutae like "who is ranked highest" is like a big penis contest among children.
Heck, as long as you’re going there, why not call a smartphone a PC? Apart from size, there’s not much difference between an iPhone and an iPad.
Just about any car today has more computational power than early PCs. Many have hard drives for the nav function. Some have Internet connectivity. Why not call a car a “PC”?
This is semantic silliness.
Let’s count calculators too. Or how about microwaves and remotes controls?
What is the point of this trite fanboy article? Some sort of call for some type of tech affirmative action so Apple fans can pretend that they make up the majority of something?
It seems that these guys spend all day either making excuses for Apple screwing them over on something, or trying to piece together stats to make it seem like everyone is using macs.
>> Some sort of call for some type of tech affirmative action so Apple fans can pretend that they make up the majority of something?
I don’t understand why exactly, but I do understand that it’s super-serial important to them.
Almost cult-like. Fascinating.
Careful.
You’ll be accused of spreading “noise”.
Personally, I like the iPad for a lot of things, but cannot see it replacing a PC. Great for performing a lot of manipulation-oriented tasks and some of the apps (and games) are incredible.
In a sense AAPL answered the question in the negative a while back, when it dropped "Computer" from its corporate name.OTOH isn't iOS an operating system? What else but a computer runs under an operating system?
I guess maybe the "PC" is dying. If you define the "PC" in terms of the traditional keyboard and mouse . . .
They’d be counting it as a PC if it ran Windows. It’s also around the price of a mid-range PC, so it’s above the regular “media tablet” market.
Apple's been trying to create a "computing appliance" ever since the first Mac.
And also every single smartphone out there.
It is a legitimate assesment. Did your PC in 1987 have a WYSIWYG word processor?
The market is more fragmented than ever, but this and that industry player gets puff pieces printed with the definition of computer twaeked to make it seem as if they are some kind of dominasnt force in the market.
The more the lines blur, the more meaningless the holding of a title like "market share leader" becomes.
What's the point of being the"market share leader" when nobody really knows what "market" you're the share leader of? It becomes meaningless advertising hype, which as near as I can tell isn't good for anyone except whoever it is that's making the claim.
Almost everything runs under some kind of OS these days. Embedded Linux and VXWorks are in probably billions of tiny devices, from your GPS and your set top box or DVR, to your wireless router. The days of basic circuitry running electronics devices are waning.
Now that I've thought about this a bit I have to disagree with the author. An iPad cannot be counted as a PC for one reason: it is dependent on a computer for setup and synching. That makes it a satellite device along with PDAs. I'll change my mind when you can pull an iPad out of the box and start using it without first plugging it into a computer.
We've got ATMs that run Windows, but I doubt anyone's going to count them as PC's.
As a matter of fact, yes; since 1984. ;-)
I sit by the pool with my iPad, VPN into my server at work and then use VNC to connect to my desktop. I then can do anything by the pool that I can do at my desk, only I am dressed differently. I can sit at the beach and do the same utilizing the 3G network. Find me an 8-bit CPM box from 1981 that can do that.
I have one iPad. Its fantastic - as an entertainment device. It awesome to play games on, Freep, surf the web, heck I even have logmein ignition so I can remote control my PC’s and servers that I manage. Sometimes I even sit down at my laptop and start trying to drag things across the screen.
Will it ever replace the 4 pc’s I have at home or any of the 200+ PC’s and servers I manage at work??? Nope...
I cut my PC teeth on Apple’s Macintosh system and, over time, really grew to like it. However, I had to give in to convention and go with Windows and, for many years, I thought PCs with Windows were ok.
Increasingly, however, I am becoming very disenchanted with Microsoft routinely changing their OS after proclaiming that each OS release is the last OS you’ll ever need. IMO, they have made each successive OS release worse than the last one.
With Apple, I found myself trapped in the “init” wars between Apple’s OS and a publisher’s application. When an application didn’t work after I installed it, the publisher would point to Apple’s OS as being the problem. When I called Apple, they would point to the publisher’s init as the problem. I was out the money, couldn’t take the software back and had an application that didn’t work.
Between the two of them today, either one is a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea!!
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