Let me be the first to observe one thing in this article — This author seems to confuse dominance in the mobile market with dominance in the OVERALL computer market.
Unless someone tells me that Servers, desktops and laptops are going to disappear from the scene in the near future, I find it hard to accept his thesis.
I mean Personal computer usage may be moving on to the tablet and phone, but businesses, where the bulk of serious computer usage continues to reside, are not moving so fast.
And note — Open Source OS and others have been on the scene for over a decade.... I’m not seeing a mass movement towards open source at all...
Apparently, the next Windows product will be cloud based. At that point I’ll say goodbye to Windows.
Sure, Cobol and mainframes were going to be dead, I was told, by 1985.
People always seem to miss the point. Saying an OS or a platform is “dead” doesn’t mean extinct like the dodo bird. So if your mom has a windows based PC in her sewing room - that does not refute the stated argument.
“Dead” here means - not what it once was - no longer the 900 lb. gorilla that gets to control how the game is played.
Think of Network News. It still exists - sure - but it ain’t what it used to be. This is the way to think about articles such as these.
Yesterday a 49 inch TV was delivered and I had no idea why. Turned out my MIL signed up for a smart phone and that was part of the deal but she didn’t want the TV so she had it sent to us for our daughter. My daughter is 4.
AOL is dead, cable killed it.
Cable is dead, G5 killed it.
G5 is dead, “the cloud” killed it.
“The cloud is dead”, the next thing killed it.
Dunno abouchoo, but I luv my paperless office first predicted in 1981.