The Passing of the Personal Computer Era

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AllThingsD columnist Arik Hesseldahl noticed another milestone marking the passing of the personal computer era (http://allthingsd.com/20120915/its-official-the-era-of-the-personal-computer-is-over/): for the first time since the early '80s, the share of worldwide sales of DRAM chips consumed by PCs (desktop and laptop computers, but not tablets) has dropped below fifty percent. Perhaps a more important milestone was reached last year, when more smartphones were shipped (not sold) worldwide (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/03/canalys-more-smartphones-than-pcs-shipped-in-2011) than the combined total of PC's and tablets (also noticed by Microsoft watcher Joe Wilcoxhere (http://betanews.com/2011/02/09/the-pc-era-is-over/)). While this is certainly of tremendous marketing and business importance to the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, and PC OEMs (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/post-pc-era-means-mass-extinction-for-personal-computer-oems/20514), others may reflect on the impending closing of the history books on the era that started in Silicon Valley (http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/homebrew_and_how_the_apple.php) a little over 35 years ago

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