Beyond the PC  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8754 (Oct. 2011), page 3-5.
Topik: Computers; Smartphones; Portable Computers; Technological Change; Forecasts; Consumer Behavior; International

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Nielsen, a market-research firm, reckons smartphones make up the majority of mobile-phone purchases in America. Emerging markets are embracing them as well: in Indonesia, BlackBerry handsets made by Canada's Research in Motion (RIM) have become a status symbol among the country's fast-growing middle class. Sales of tablet computers, though still small, are also growing rapidly. Since Apple's iPad arrived last year, a host of rivals have appeared, such as RIM's Playbook, Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Sony's Tablet. All eyes are now on Amazon's Kindle Fire. With smartphones, which seem to be surgically attached to the hand of every teenager and many an adult, tablets have opened up a new dimension to mobile computing that is seducing consumers. Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, believes that in 2011 combined shipments of smartphones and tablets will overtake those of personal computers (PCs). This marks a turning-point in the world of personal technology. For around 30 years PCs in various forms have been people's main computing devices. Indeed, they were the first machines truly to democratise computing power, boosting personal productivity and giving people access, via the internet, to a host of services from their homes and offices. Now the rise of smartphones and tablet computers threatens to erode the PC's dominance, prompting talk that a "post-PC" era is finally dawning.

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