Steve Jobs calls this the "Post-PC Era," so maybe it's all his fault. On the other hand, Gartner ought to take its share of the blame, since it was the first to start putting out misleading titles about PC vs. pad and netbook sales suggesting the former was a dying breed, not seeing that pads and netbooks were fulfilling certain PC tasks.
Device Confusion
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