“New sales figures show slow the decline of the personal computer is accelerating, with consumers abandoning the desktop units in droves in favor of more portable devices.
New figures from the International Data Corp. show 1 million fewer PC shipments than tablets in the third quarter of this year,” wrote Nathan Porter of the Washington Times.
The article, addresses the question, will PC’s soon be a thing of the past with the increasing popularity of tablets?
Not so, says Tim Finin a professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, ”
“While I think this trend will continue, there are still going to be many people who will need to use PCs,” said Tim Finin, an engineering professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.”
