Apple

[Grieve]

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And speaking of which, macs are going gangbusters, while PCs are in decline. When I heard the VP of my group talking about "the post PC era" at an all hands recently, I knew we were in for a sea change.

Just to be clear, when most marketing dev teams talk about "post PC" era today they are talking about personnel computers being replaced with things like smart phones, and such. PC's being any desktop / laptop like device, MAC or Windows device.

Right - I shouldn't have put those two comments in the same paragraph. He was talking about replacement of desktops and notebooks with tablets, phones, and other portable devices. It was the first time I'd really heard the "post PC" phrase from anyone but Apple, though, so it caught my attention. Especially since the company I work for is an enormous corporation in the computing and storage world, so if they see this shift in focus, it's a big deal.

Here's more proof - small businesses are starting to use iPads bigtime. Not so much a toy anymore...

http://www.bizjournals.com/mobile/denver...ching.html

So back to Vllad's original argument. Apple doesn't need any new "toys" anytime soon to keep growing like crazy...the growth opportunities for macs, iPads and iPhones has enormous potential. And unlike the old days of the macs having a hefty price premium to PCs, the iPad is pretty much the cheapest fully-functional tablet out there, even now.