The PC is dying
There is panic in the air: the PC industry as we have known it is beginning to die. PCs are becoming commodity items. The price of PCs and laptops is falling by about 50% per decade in real terms, despite performance simultaneously rising in real terms. The profit margin on a typical netbook or desktop PC is under 10%. The PC revolution has saturated the market. Anyone who needs and can afford a PC has now got one. At the same time, wireless broadband is coming. Software will be delivered as a service to users wherever they are, via whatever device they are looking at -- their phone, laptop, tablet, the TV. You will not have home broadband; you will just have data on demand wherever you are. You will not have a "computer," but be surrounded by devices that give you access to your data whenever and however you need it.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html
"Sterile world of sealed aluminium"
In mobile land, closed carrier heritage combined with Apple's product vectors may leave us with only closed options. A confluence of interests -- commercial (get your non-pirated content only from me!), governmental (cyber defense!), and user (I want to be safe!) -- will find that outcome attractive. Our generative and hacker-friendly world will be replaced by a sterile world of sealed aluminum.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/the-ipad-is-the-iprius-your-co.html
Apple now owns and controls their own mobile CPUs. From what I saw, Apple does not just own and control a mobile CPU, they own and control the hands-down best mobile CPU in the world. [...] They are Microsoft and Intel rolled into one when it comes to mobile computing. [...] They are taking over as the strongest and best company in the whole ones-and-zeroes racket.
http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/ipad_big_picture
