As we move into the post-PC era, companies will need to rethink the data experience.
The company just does not seem to have a suitable answer for the post-PC era.
The tools are now in our hands to make our lives easier in this post-PC era.
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Smith Corona moved 40 miles away (and in the PC era became irrelevant).
The PC era, Mr. Palmisano said Tuesday, ended three or four years ago.
Microsoft dominated through the red-hot '90s, the height of the PC era.
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As demand for standalone anti-virus software wanes in the post-PC era, the need for securing and managing devices rises greatly.
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What it means: In the post-PC era, services rule, and Amazon is getting quite good at offering services consumers want.
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In the PC era, Silicon Valley companies had little reason to pay attention to what went on in Washington, D.
Now comes the Net and suddenly Microsoft appears as slow and confused as DEC at the dawn of the PC era.
But CIOs are holding off even more than normal, for which I can only blame the impact of the Post-PC era.
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All three are striding further into the post-PC era with tablet developments.
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While many consider that we are already in a post-PC era due to tablets, the biggest change will be shifting computing increasingly to the Cloud.
Indeed, as enterprises enter the post-PC era, they are turning to iFixit to extend the lifespan of their iPads and Android smartphones along with their PCs.
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If webOS survives the platform wars beyond that, HP will have an important asset to differentiate itself from other OEMs and to compete in the post-PC era.
That leaves Microsoft with a choice to either shift gears and embrace the evolution of the PC, or quietly accept its fate as a dinosaur of the PC era.
Curious, on the first of these, Michael Dell, on stage at Dell World in December, declared the PC alive and well and rubbished the idea of a post-PC era.
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As much as Steve Jobs repeatedly saying that we are in a Post-PC era, I am sure deep inside, he would like to re-capture the PC market once again before he leaves Apple.
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Instead, be glad for the look back at a technology that arguably greased the wheels of the PC era, even if it sometimes led to getting more disks than you could ever use.
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The bigger question for the company is how does it plan to compete more effectively with Apple, Google, Amazon and a slew of more nimble companies that are more prepared for the post-PC era?
To put this in perspective, during the PC era (which lasted for 20 years) this would have been the equivalent of combining Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Best Buy into one firm, selling one brand.
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Last April Jobs created a stink with an open letter that called Flash "a PC-era" product that sucked power from mobile devices.
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