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How do you feel about the "post-PC" world?

Love it, let's have more! 20 19.23%
 
It's a good principle. 8 7.69%
 
Well, let's see where it goes from here. 21 20.19%
 
Things are just fine now. 5 4.81%
 
Hell no, don't fix what isn't broken. 45 43.27%
 
Other (specify). 5 4.81%
 
Total:104
Kantor on 06 March 2011

I do like this as a principle - prioritising user-friendliness.

However, if Post-PC can be summarised as "iPad 2", or "A product we released last year but with two cameras", I disapprove thoroughly.



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Rainbird on 06 March 2011
SeriousWB said:

This...  Doesn't make sense at all.  If the old design paradigm was not to meet the users needs, why would anyone have purchased anything?

This seems to be a long-winded or 'PR' way of saying "making things accessible". 

Of course needs were being met before, but this is about meeting even more needs, making computer interaction a more natural thing and something that you actually like to do, even if you're not a power user.

And it's also about making things accessible, but it's not all. It's about seperating the user from the hardware, and trying to make your users view what they're doing as something natural in their daily lives rather than something they may not be satisfied with one way or another. 

@ Kantor

Post-PC can't summed up as an Apple product, they just coined the term, nothing else. In fact, stuff like WP7 is way more post-PC than the iPhone is.



Rainbird on 06 March 2011
RolStoppable said:

So if everyone agrees that the term "post-PC" is nothing more than industry speech, we can just drop it altogether. Good.

My whole point is that this way of looking at things is nothing new for the video game market, it just appears to be the case for people who don't know the history or have forgotten about it (before the Wii we had 20 years of consoles following the "old" design paradigm as you call it). The purpose of the Atari 2600 was to make video games as accessible as possible for everyone and at a time when industry insiders proclaimed the home computers to be the future of gaming, the NES followed in Atari's footsteps by making gaming as accessible as it had been before the crash. Keyboards as input vs. a controller with a d-pad and four buttons, for example.

Everyone agrees that the term post-PC should be called something else, as the word doesn't really cover the meaning.

But other than that, I guess it means we've been agreeing all along.