Why is everyone acting like this is going to take away your freedom?
1) Yes, Apple are the ones who coined the term, but that doesn't mean anything that is post-PC has to be locked down like the iOS devices.
2) It's not about getting rid of the PC, it's about moving to the next state in user/hardware interaction, hence the "post". It's a design paradigm, it means you're focusing on designing your software to delight people by making it a great experience to use. Windows 8 could be post-PC, even if it's running on a everyday PC hardware.
It's not about locking down the hardware, it's not about stopping you from programming whatever you want (and running it), it's not about halting progress and it's not about stopping you from tinkering with what is yours. It's about putting the user first and it's about a level of user interaction where the specifics of the hardware are irrelevant.
@RolStoppable
It absolutely works and for the reasons I just outlined above. Gaming is moving in the post-PC direction because motion controls are ushering in a new era where user interaction is the name of the game. And gaming is just one area of computation now moving in this direction, hence why it's a thread for discussing the broad sense of the term and not just "motion control vs. analogue sticks" or whatever.
