we may not be in a post-PC era universally speaking, but I often find myself blown away by how many teens don’t seem to care for owning a laptop these days, when it used to be a very coveted possession.
And again, there seems to be a huge misunderstanding on what both Steve and Tim meant by the “ post PC era”.
I already posted the video in this thread, so I’m not going to post it again, but Steve in 2010, when talking about the post PC era, specifically said that “PC’s will still be around, and will still have a lot of value”.
It was not about killing the PC, it was never about killing the PC.
It was about the PC no longer being the digital hub, which it absolutely is not these days.
Back in the 2000s, everything was controlled through the PC.
You wanted to download and synchronize music to your iPod? You used a PC.
You wanted to manage your photo library? You hooked up your digital camera… To your PC.
You wanted to edit a quick movie to throw up on YouTube? You had to do it through your PC.
You wanted to update your address book for your iPhone? You did that through your PC, then hooked your iPhone up to your PC to synchronize the changes.
You wanted to buy a movie to watch on your Apple TV? You purchased it on your PC, and then used iTunes to synchronize that movie to your Apple TV, or otherwise streamed it from your PC to your Apple TV. Although this one didn’t really take off, most people just bought DVDs.
These days, we are absolutely in a post PC era.
The amount of people using their PC as the digital hub is… Extremely low. Sure, there are still some out there who won’t adapt with the times, and that’s fine. If it works for you, that’s great.
But most people are not doing that.
Their phone is their digital camera and their digital video recorder, if they want to web browse from their couch, they’re using their iPad, if they want to watch a TV show they are using either a streaming stick or whatever is built into their TV, for music they’re just clicking a song in whatever service they decide to use and streaming it over the Internet.
Most people are doing photo editing, video editing, and uploading all from their phones or tablets.
Instant messaging certainly isn’t happening on the PC anymore, we’re doing it from phones, tablets, and even watches.
The PC is… Just another device. It’s not a hub, it’s just another thing.
For some people, it’s their most important workhorse, for other people it gets used once a week when they absolutely have to sit down at their desk and intentionally use the thing.
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