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Raeuber: a "post-PC-device" (Tim Cook)
I think Jobs may have also used the phrase, but an earlier forecaster was IBM as evidenced by this report from 3rd March 1999
http://www.arnnet.com.au:The information technology industry "is in the middle of an historic change" the likes of which occur only every 20 years or so, IBM chief Louis Gerstner said last week, heralding the "post-PC era" as a time of opportunities and challenges. Gerstner, chairman and chief executive officer of IBM, delivered the keynote talk to some 4000 of his company's global business partners - resellers, systems integrators and other channel partners - gathered here for the annual Business Partner Executive Conference (BPEC). He also issued a plea: "Please don't run out here saying, 'Gerstner said the PC is dead'. "The PC isn't going to be any deader than the mainframe," Gerstner said, perhaps unintentionally drawing snickers and titters from the large audience. According to Gerstner, while the PC is not even truly ailing, it is undergoing transformation and will, in the "new economy" he and other industry leaders often speak of, no longer be the focus of business, supplanted instead by appliances capable of providing users with Internet connectivity. "In just a few years, these devices are going to outnumber PCs," Gerstner said, adding that Internet appliances will likely have more staying power than PCs.
Gerstner, chairman and chief executive officer of IBM, delivered the keynote talk to some 4000 of his company's global business partners - resellers, systems integrators and other channel partners - gathered here for the annual Business Partner Executive Conference (BPEC). He also issued a plea: "Please don't run out here saying, 'Gerstner said the PC is dead'. "The PC isn't going to be any deader than the mainframe," Gerstner said, perhaps unintentionally drawing snickers and titters from the large audience. According to Gerstner, while the PC is not even truly ailing, it is undergoing transformation and will, in the "new economy" he and other industry leaders often speak of, no longer be the focus of business, supplanted instead by appliances capable of providing users with Internet connectivity. "In just a few years, these devices are going to outnumber PCs," Gerstner said, adding that Internet appliances will likely have more staying power than PCs.
Gerstner, chairman and chief executive officer of IBM, delivered the keynote talk to some 4000 of his company's global business partners - resellers, systems integrators and other channel partners - gathered here for the annual Business Partner Executive Conference (BPEC). He also issued a plea: "Please don't run out here saying, 'Gerstner said the PC is dead'.
"The PC isn't going to be any deader than the mainframe," Gerstner said, perhaps unintentionally drawing snickers and titters from the large audience.
According to Gerstner, while the PC is not even truly ailing, it is undergoing transformation and will, in the "new economy" he and other industry leaders often speak of, no longer be the focus of business, supplanted instead by appliances capable of providing users with Internet connectivity.
"In just a few years, these devices are going to outnumber PCs," Gerstner said, adding that Internet appliances will likely have more staying power than PCs.
some of the predicted dates slipped, no doubt because of the dot-com crash ... but it helps to explain why IBM exited the PC business well before Jobs & co started to take it apart
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linder:However the French forum doesn't show in the list.
The French forum isn't listed in the App as it isn't listed directly on this page, where the app gets the information. I have flagged it, but I guess as it isn't really a forum bug it doesn't take priority.
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Beoworld app with direct photo upload and emoticons.