Ive been reading that the PC is dead for the past 10 years. Its not dead.
This is just an recondite and abstract way of looking at the term PC. So it depends on your definition of 'Personal Computer'.
The PC is not dead, nor ever will be.
Why? In an abstruse way -
it never actually lived.
What is
perceived to be the death of the PC is nothing more than changing the methods of how we accomplish the same tasks we do now, as mentioned in the article.
The notion of PC death stems from the fact it is
desktop computers and how they are trying to change how we currently utilise them coupled with the fact that there is a great push to phase them out and replace them with alternative methods.
Enter tablets/netbooks and goodbye to whatever element of 'personal computing' we currently
perceive it as (desktops), since things are now erring towards complete and utter homogeneity with locked down and mass produced uniform devices.
(Putting a sticker on a device may
personalise it - but it doesn't make it
personal. )
Operating Systems and applications, be they Linux/MAC/Windows based can be 'personally' customised to an extent - but ultimately we have been, and are, limited by boundaries. Not really personal.
The same applies to component choices - you still have 'choices' but we are still fundamentally limited to a subset of technology and their subsequent manufacturers. Again, not really personal.
Combine the two and you will soon realise that ultimately there was, and is nothing truly 'personal' about computing.
Broadly speaking, we currently still have 'personal choices' in how we use our computers, tablets, netbooks etc - but in reality, these 'personal choices' have
always been limited and have never actually been what could be defined as
truly personal.
Ergo - The term 'PC' itself is a misnomer, and as such -
since the PC was never alive, it is not dying - nor can it ever be dead.