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The opening line of extrapolating a SFO cafe to a Post-PC _world_ was pretty cheesy. This guy has no idea how things work in the world, especially Asia.

Also no mention of how Carly Fiorina got rid of the R&D teams to cut costs, leading to the current disaster. Siegler comes across as a shallow fanboy, atleast Gruber can put some better spin on things.



Don't want to turn this into flame, but I disagree with your argument. I thought it is Asia that is more PC-less than US & Europe. And it is impossible to tell if the R&D teams really stay and did a good job, would it really make webOS flourish or would it just prolong its dismise. Can webOS even win 3rd place without a true believing CEO that bet the company behind it? That is why I believe that details about how it got into this "mess" is irrelevant to the article.


>I thought it is Asia that is more PC-less than US & Europe

Huh what? Have you looked at Mac penetration in Asia?

Look at Safari usage in North America vs. Asia

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-as-monthly-201007-201107

Sales of PCs in China grew 11% last quarter year over year.


Nothing you have said counters fuzzyfinger point 'I thought it is Asia that is more PC-less than US & Europe.'

Yes, Asia may have more macs, and they may be growing more, but we are after statistics showing more people use mobile devices for internet access than PCs.


It's not clear what you are trying to say, but I think you at least should have changed the statistic on the same graph: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-as-monthly-201007-...




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