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The CorpTechPocalypse And The Post PC World?

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Last week, I noted that some say Apple had their first post-PC quarter – and that this isn't suprising.  In fact, ilke the "CorpTechPocalypse", the slow dying of IT departments, this is a completely predictable trend.  In fact, I think they're the same thing.

Really, the dying of the average IT department is pretty much the same reason that companies are aiming for a post-PC market.

(Now I agree with our own Scott that it's not a post-PC world in that the world will forget PC's.  I view what's coming as a world where the PC's role shrinks considerably.  But I call it Post-PC as the other term I heard, "PC Plus," doesn't cut it for me)

So what are these similarities?

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Mobile Phones, Computers, And Trends

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So we look in wonder at Mobile Phones.  They're gaming devices, they're cameras, they're electronic wallets.  Oh, and occasionally they're phones as well, when you're not texting or Twittering or throwing birds into pigs.

The mobile market seems captivating and enchanting to us as we marvel at all the things phones can do.

Well, yes, I am impressed with mobile phones, but I'm not impressed with all this functionality anymore.  Why?

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Survey Sunday Roundup: Cultural Infusions

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Just a note, since a lot of you are on vacation, busy, or otherwise occupied, Survey Sunday is going to skip a week.  We'll pick it up next week, when you're merely hung over from New Years.

So we asked . . . (and by the way due to a glitch I had to adjust things slightly)

1. Right now there's a lot of media popular in North America that comes from Britain and Japan. So what other countries do you expect to affect North American media in the next decade?

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