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Half of computing device sales are mobile – Is the PC “dead”? By Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOM

Posted By xyzmo On January 16, 2012 @ 6:22 pm In Digital Signature Solutions | Comments Disabled

… Starting around 2007, when Apple introduced the iPhone, sales of devices running mobile platforms have eaten into a large portion of traditional desktop and laptop sales.

Apple sells far more iOS devices than those that run Mac OS X: in the last quarter of 2011, Apple sold at least 28 million iOS devices, vs 4.9 million Macs. And with a few niche exceptions that don’t account to a meaningful number of sales, Android devices are all mobile devices, not traditional computers.

Mobile devices are a cheaper starting investment, they have connectivity to the growing number of cloud services and they meet many needs that a used to be the sole domain of a PC. Is the PC “dead”? Nope. … But my future — and I think yours too — will become less reliant on the computer on your desk or lap today.

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