I'm on the way to #BizCampNYC, to do my and my companys dime to Cloud Computing using Azure.
As you probably remember, I’ve changed from Windows to Mac. During this transition I’m stunned to see how little I use real programs. Most of the day I use Google Chrome where I have about 15 tabs running. I have mail, docs, reader, different Facebook pages, my blogs and a couple of websites that I need to consider. I regularly use Settings, Use existing, to save the setup, in case of need to reload Chrome or OS X.
I’ve added a handful of extensions to Chrome; Blog this, Mail this, Delicious, LastPass and twepal.
Today we expect Apple to release its tablet. Together with netbooks and iPhone, I expect it to completely make the PC obsolete for most of us. If you don’t do music or graphic editing, heavy development and gaming, I expect the cheap PC to disappear completely. Instead we will get netBooks for under 100 dollar, which will start instantly, weight under a kilo and run for 20 hours. The heavy duty PC on the other hand will cost a lot more than today. Expect to pay 5-6 thousand dollars for a decent workhorse!
Assuming this scenario it’s interesting to see what will disappear from our life; accessories like cameras, mp3, Dvd players, hard disks, mouse, keyboards. Normal desktop programs like Office will disappear, just like most of normal programs. There will also be no need for utility programs like anti-virus, backup, defraggers and others. With everything in the cloud, these utilities just don’t make sense.
So, PC, desktop and laptops, desktop programs and utilities and accessories mentioned above will disappear. But also the PC magazines will die. There will not be anything to test and discuss!
So rest in peace, RIP, my dear PC and its programs, utilities and accessories. I don’t think most of us will even notice that you are gone!
