Does Windows 8 diss the PC? | Mobile World Congress - CNET

The personal computer is still the only tool that can be used to truly create, and is the only computing environment in which the user’s imagination is the only limitation in play. Newcomer devices such as tablets and those smartphones which emulate the iPhone (almost all of them at this point) are designed not for creation but consumption - devices built with inherent limitations and sold at a 50% mark-up. Devices whose limitations can’t be surpassed without continuously purchasing new apps, which themselves are only useful for consumption of other content which generates revenue for them, but does not inspire or empower creativity in you. Resist the fashionable urge to dismiss personal computing as part of a bygone era. It is the only thing that stands between us and an orgiastic cesspool of consumerism. From the article: “It’s become very fashionable lately to talk down the personal computer. HP infamously flirted with dropping out of the PC business, before backtracking under a new CEO, and a Dell executive recently said, “We’re no longer a PC company, we’re an IT company.” Add two years of non-stop iPad fever (and the resultant tablet gold rush), and that old-fashioned keyboard-touchpad-screen device sitting on your lap suddenly seems very out of style.” Read more: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57387691-78/does-windows-8-diss-the-pc/#ixzz1nnsU1WW6