Punch line: Like everything in tech, personal computers were always fated to become commodity appliances.
Excerpted from WSJ:”Steve Jobs and the Death of the Personal Computer”
Great technology industries usually die with a whimper.
But last week the curtain came down with a bang on the most famous tech industry of all — personal computers — thanks to Steve Jobs’s retirement from Apple and the less high-profile announcement that Hewlett-Packard was leaving the PC market.
Hewlett-Packard’s announcement was more surprising. H-P was until recently the world’s largest maker of personal computers.
In recent years, though, cost-cutting competitors, market saturation and alternative hardware platforms have sucked most of the profits out of PCs.
Like everything in tech, personal computers were always fated to become commodity appliances.
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September 15, 2011 at 8:03 am |
If by PC you mean Windows-based computers, I agree. If you mean all personal computers, Apple – with its ever-increasing laptop/desktop sales and extremely high margins – is an exception.