At the recent iPad 2 launch, Steve Jobs proclaimed that we’re in a “post-PC” world – but he’s not the first to say that – Jonathan Schwartz from Sun Microsystems also used that term in the first half of the last decade… and look where Sun is now!
It will certainly be a while before we can drive the last nail into the coffin of the PC but things are changing. Whilst PCs have become commodities, two major technology shifts are driving a change in the way that we consume our IT applications:
- Mobility – the growth of the smartphone and the tablet/slate as popular categories of device.
- IT consumerisation – the rise of end-user owned devices within the workplace.
Author: Mark Wilson
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