The glorious era of PC stardom is over. Once the belle of the technology ball, desktops and laptops now share the spotlight with smartphones and tablets, and the embrace of mobile devices by consumers has provoked deep changes in the computing landscape.
No, PCs aren't dying out, but they are shifting form to more closely resemble the Hot New Things. And there's good reason for it.
"Consumers are mainly driven by simplicity and familiarity," says Carolina Milanesi, Gartner's research vice president of consumer technology.
In a word, people yearn for consistency. And as the industry struggles to satisfy that demand, mobile design is bleeding over to the desktop—though the Big Three PC operating systems are approaching the convergence in drastically different ways.
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