Post PC?

(Ours didn't have a mouse, either!)This is what it's come to? As industry experts and pundits from both sides lob their best material at each other, we now are on the verge of arguing if the PC is to be replaced by the tablet, slate, ultra thin notebook or smartphone.

Guess what? We're already past it. Sales for non-PC computing devices already have eclipsed traditional desktop sales. Ask yourself, what device are you looking forward to using - personally and "on the job" with your customers? It's probably not a PC, unless you require the gaming or graphics engine of a workhorse machine. For most of us, it has come down to the least common denominator. We need Internet connectivity. We need email. We want social tools. We like online gaming, music, and entertainment. Most of this is smartphone ready, and all of it comes as part of tablet or ultra slim laptop ownership. That's where you're heading.

To know that we started SIGNARAMA with WYSE 2208 80286 machines, green or amber monochrome monitors and optional 287 math co-processor chips (Installed by yours truly) is amazing. Now our franchisees operate independent of their store's four walls, conducting business with anytime access to customers, projects, schedules, suppliers, accounting and reporting and social media to tell the story! The PC or Mac back at the retail location churns the designs and still has a purpose. But where we are heading is more exciting than where we've been. Promise.