{"id":9812,"date":"2012-04-16T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T10:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/is_the_post-pc_era_a_myth.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:44:27","slug":"is-the-post-pc-era-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/is-the-post-pc-era-a-myth.html","title":{"rendered":"Is the Post-PC Era a Myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The way one should interpret the term “Post-PC” is “after PC” – implying that the world has changed from era to the next. Sarah Perez at TechCrunch does an admirable job of laying the case for what she calls<\/a> the Post-PC era or alternatively – “PCs Everywhere” which I agree isn’t quite as catchy.<\/p>\n

In her article she discusses how Apple sold 37M iPhones in Q4, 15% of the official PC market is made up of tablets (mostly iPads) and Apple is now the leading “PC” vendor. Moreover smartphone shipments last year hit 487.7M<\/strong> while PC shipments hit 414.6M<\/strong> and the smartphone growth rate is 63%<\/strong> versus 15%<\/strong> for PCs.<\/p>\n

So one would imagine once again that the phrase “Post-PC” means that there aren’t going to be more PCs sold.<\/p>\n

Gary Kim writes<\/a> on IP Carrier that while global tablet sales are growing at 98% YoY for 2012, the PC market is expected to increase 4.4% and will increase to 10% in 2013.<\/p>\n

The catch is – and there is always a catch, that most of these sales will be in emerging markets and will be for more portable computers – laptops, ultrabooks, etc. Kim makes the argument however that tablets may be 42% of total PC sales by 2016 – a staggering percentage.<\/p>\n

The trend is clear however that portability and style trump virtually everything else when it comes to the tech space. And moreover although the PC space is growing – it is in-part because tablets are being factored in.<\/p>\n

So really the proper explanation for what is happening is we are entering a post – bland, nontransportable PC market phase. Let’s just call is “Post-PC” for short.\"smiley-smile\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The way one should interpret the term “Post-PC” is “after PC” – implying that the world has changed from era to the next. Sarah Perez at TechCrunch does an admirable job of laying the case for what she calls the Post-PC era or alternatively – “PCs Everywhere” which I agree isn’t quite as catchy. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,169,158,168,172,196,163,188,118,1760,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19347,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812\/revisions\/19347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}