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IMO, portability and device synchronization are the biggest non-business selling points now. Many people fall into one of two categories. They either don't know or don't want to learn or they don't have time to learn something new (that's me). Right now Apple handles those two dynamics better than any other organization.

Freepers, I think, are for the most part smarter and more adaptable than the general public. They can manage portability and synchronization on their own and don't like being constrained by Apple products. They don't represent the majority of the general population though.

You may be correct that the PC is dying. Won't be in my lifetime though (I'm 55). Before that happens the baseline computing knowledge of the general population will have to increase substantially.

JMO. Thanks for yours.

The PC is not dying. How do people think all these neat mobile devices and tablets are programmed? Not on a mobile device or tablet.

Try running a debugger on a 7 inch screen with an on screen keyboard. Sheesh. Commercials on tv promoting all the social media advances are so obtuse and targeted for the “look at me” demographic. “The next big thing yada yada...” and it is some palm size gadget that allows to share your music playlist, big frickin’ deal. Heck even the smart phones are getting bigger than smaller.

For the people who only surf, waste time on fb and other social crappers, and post youtube videos of inane, stupid stuff, yes they don’t need a PC. For those that actually work they will need a keyboard and at a minimum a 17 inch screen (if not two), 8+ GB of RAM and a xxGB hard drive.

Attention follow up rant: Come to think of it I am sick of hearing about the cloud as well. Yeah let’s put all out data out of our control where any small thing denies us access and anyone can get to it. I do software design and I hate this crap, it is always the newer generation of “engineers” that want everything cloudy and install pant loads of plug-ins and extensions to get their open source crap to run. I look at the achievements made in the 30’s-80’s (aerospace travel for one) without massive computing power and I am sometime feeling we are moving backward. Most technology advances came from space and military research (even medical stuff) and now it is all deriving from what is best for sharing your life BS.

Ah I feel better.

Before that happens the baseline computing knowledge of the general population will have to increase substantially.

In a way the opposite is happening. As people use computers more, they know less and less about them. Someone who bought a PC circa 1990 had to be much more of an expert on how to configure them than someone today. Software designers have made computing devices and applications increasingly easy to use and foolproof. That insulates the masses from the underlying complexity of the systems.