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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Relique du Madde" data-source="post: 5510201" data-attributes="member: 42169">Jobisms are only clever marketing phrases/ploys for the weak minded.   Steve Jobs considers a iDevice a computer.  iDevices be them phones or pads or pod are personal devices same with non iDevice tablets phones and what not.  Thus making them EXTREMELY personal computers.  Lexicon fail.  Of course, Jobs wants it to be a post-pc world since then he would consider himself a WINNER on a Sheenian scale (since he considers "post-pc" as meaning microsoft has lost instead of microsoft has stepped back because thye don't want an other monopoly suit while they are helping facebook become the next AOL).The only way we will ever be post "PC" is if you could do everything you could do on a PC/desktop/laptop/webbook on a phone or tablet.  That everything includes filming Avatar, rendering it's graphic or developing a immersible 3d environment real time multi-player game capable of holding the entire population who plays WoW on one server, and running a processing intensive program (like flash) WHILE MULTITASKING and not having to have a server farm somewhere to handle all the processing because our next gen processors are that fast (yes, iI realize I'm talking about the singularity, but without reaching that then we can't have a true Post PC world).Until any hand held device can do a fraction of that, without gagging or Steve Jobs claiming "we don't need X because not having it is better, durrr" then don't say things like "post pc" and expect to get a pass from anyone who isn't a cool aid drinker or marketer.</blockquote>

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