Forgot your password?   Comment: Yeah, but ... (Score 1) 549  by
jastus (#32049798) Attached to: The End of the PC Era and
Apple's Plan To Survive While I fully expect "cloud computing"
to result in the same resounding THUD as did earlier Paradigm
Shifts (the network is the computer, etc), I think Old Doc Jobs
is trying to take a look over the next hill at where computing
for today's non-computer-geek/non-computer-professional/non-
power-user computer users will be in five to eight years. He's
decided where he thinks that will be, and he's pissing in all
the corners of that particular property so that he and his
progeny can milk it for all it's worth. It's not so much what
the next paradigm will be, but the fact that there WILL be a
next paradigm of some sort or other. I expect to be using a PC
(Mac, actually) until they pry it from my cold, dead, fingers,
but that's on my professional side. As a personal user, I am
keeping a close eye on iPad because I think it's got a chance of
morphing into something really