Educational Technology

September 13, 2011

Moves by HP, Google further marginalize the traditional PC

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:39 am

By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY

Steve Jobs’ bombshell resignation as CEO. Hewlett-Packard’s abdication of its multibillion-dollar PC group. Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility. Dell’s wobbly sales forecast. The whipsaw sequence of recent events in the technology industry highlighted what many are calling the rise of mobility and the marginalization of the PC. Meteoric spikes in the sale of smartphones and tablets are merely hastening the diminished status of the traditional desktop PC, whose sales have flattened the past few years with little relief in sight. The shift from PCs to mobile devices and so-called cloud-based computing has sent ripples throughout the high-tech industry, uprooting HP’s business strategy and propelling a Google wireless partnership that seemed unthinkable weeks ago.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/story/2011-09-05/Moves-by-HP-Google-further-marginalize-the-traditional-PC/50266334/1

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