‘PC market is in its twilight,’ says former Apple exec

Yeah, we have heard that “PC is dying out”, “going away”, etc. crap for years!

MAC PC’s? Yep, I can see them in their “twilight”, cause no one should have bought one of those jokes in the first place!

Course, this moron is ex-CrApple, so the Faithful tards will start putting their PC’s out on the curb tonight, cause if someone from CrApple says it….it MUST be so!

hee hee hee

How is he going to shit on PCs, then mention CAD, Photoshop, and Final Cut. Mac’s = PC’s too. I’d hate to try and earn a living using a mobile version of these programs full time.

I don’t get this at all. Why would tablets or smartphones take away from the Desktop market? They will take away from the netbook/laptop market.

The activities that take place on a desktop cannot be replicated on a tablet. But the experience given by laptops and netbooks can be easily duplicated into tablet form factor or even the smartphone factor.

Intel was in the mobile space, they got out to concentate on their core business in light of AMD catching and surpassing them from a technology standpoint. Though getting out of mobile wasn’t the best idea it did probably atleast help them solidify their spot as the top x86 chip maker. Intel now plans on re-entering the mobile chip game and I am sure that it won’t take them long to flex their R&D muscle and become one of the main chip makers for smartphones and tablets.

yay another old white guy hear to tell us what is going to happen…woohoo I’m throwing my PC out tonight.

Yes PC’s may be going the way of the dino among consumers but among creators it aint gonna happen.

for consuming data (checking e-mail, browsing, etc etc) tablets do a better job, Making a website , editing music or video you’d be screwed depending on a tablet.

I use tablets! I sell tablets! I would never evn consider trading in my laptop pc for a tablet!

laptops are perhaps a dying breed… replaced by devices that are even more mobile… but the desktop will be here for a long time to come…

His teeth look rotten from drinking too much of the Apple Kool-Aid

PCs are already in their twilight at Apple – Mac sales account for less than 25% of Apple’s revenue. Apple is no longer a PC company, they’re an entertainment company that happens to have a small computer division attached to it.

THis dude should know, it looks like he is in his twilight as well

Even though it is in twilight, smartphones are ruling!!..

I wonder if J-L Gassee knows that technically “twilight” refers to midnight, thus making the context out of place – “Now that the PC market is in its “midnight…”, I guess we can expect other quotes like “Macs will “eclipse” the PC market” from the former one-sided ex-employee.

Maybe there’s a good reason that he’s a “Former Apple Exec”?
Maybe there’s a good reason Apple didn’t perform well when he was on board?

Hmmm, I love my iPad. But I love my 8 core Mac Pro with 30 inch screen even more.

Gonna be a while before the US administration, military and all the insurance companies give up their cheap Windows desktop PCs in cubicles and give all their employees iPads.

Once more CrApple is believing its own BS hype.

This guy is right! Now that I can hook my smartphone up to my 24 inch monitor and run games at the native 1920×1080 resolution with graphic opti– what? Can’t do that yet? Can’t come even close? Won’t be able to do that for a while?

Last I checked, the iPad can’t match a desktop in CAD work. The Xoom doesn’t have the horsepower for major Photoshop work. I’m sure this guy thinks PC gaming is going to die out any day now, too.

Yup, those corporations are just throwing PC’s out the window like Enron shredded paper.

GTFO, some of these Apple guys make the most asinine, conceded, un-informed, and unintelligent comments ever.

It’s all about the workplace. The “PC” will always be #1 as long as there is not a workplace alternative. Atrixes for everyone?

Wow this guy is smart! Next he’ll tell us the fax machine is on it’s way out.

Yeah, I can just see tons of people doing Photoshop and video editing using their fingers on an iPad.

The PC market has surely matured. It is no longer expanding as it did for several decades. But neither is it contracting. Tablets have taken market share from netbooks, but not from laptops or desktops and they won’t for the foreseeable future. Even the iPad requires a real computer to activate it.

Gasse mistakes growth rate for market size. That’s the same mistake that gave rise to the dot com bubble.

Well apple!!! keep praying you dumb customers stay dumb, if they get any techie or intelligent they will go with Android( for phones or tablets) and Windows (for pc) which cost half of what apple’s products and whose funtionality ranges anywhere between 100 to 1000 times more than yours….

Alright I’m prepared to get bashed for this but something that hasn’t been mentioned: PC Gaming.

I’m currently building a tower in anticipation of the release of Diablo 3, and look forward to playing games like battlefield 3 on it rather than my xbox. I know this goes against the trends of the past… I don’t know 15 years? But I believe due to Sony and Microsoft not planning on releasing new consoles any time soon, there should be a rise in PC gaming over the next year or so. Xbox 360 came out six years ago, games are capable of so much more than these consoles are allowing, I know that has always been the argument for PC gaming but I think with the ability to have a solid system for under $1000 it just makes sense for gamers currently in the market for a new computer like myself to go with a desktop that will allow me to do all the things any other computer can do and have an improved gaming machine as well.

I also believe that the growth of the smartphone actually enhances my desire for a solid desktop; knowing that I will be getting a powerful new smartphone this summer makes me feel less pressured to go with a laptop or tablet for mobility purposes

i don’t think this is in any way remotely true, in fact what i think it really is is old people failing to realize that the computing market can expand without shrinking in one area, just because you may have 2 mobile phones, a tablet, and ipod, doesn’t mean you don’t want a PC in fact i don’t know a single person that has dropped their PC in favor of any of these devices. PC will live forever, and if it’s in apples future to behave like it won’t then adios apple, as i see it they’ve been consistently miscalculating the future of computing for several years now, refusing to change iOS, gearing their desktop OS to it’s mobile…i dunno, apple has this all wrong.

man, is no one going to make BeOS joke here. This is the same guy that let 400+ million pass over his head from Apple when they needed an Os, instead they bought Next which became OsX. this french guy is a joke.

Is there a summer camp out in Silicon Valley somewhere that grooms all of these formerly-relevant tech executives to be ass backward “analysts” when they leave their real jobs?
Slowing growth != imminent deathGrowing new market != death of somewhat similar existing market
Tablets very well may kill netbooks eventually since they fill very similar roles and will probably take a bit out of laptop sales since many people that buy laptops would be just as happy with a tablet. But tablets won’t totally kill PC’s because they fulfill different needs.