"The PC is dead, long live the tablet" <-- What does this tell us about the process of invention and innovation?

NEW YORK, Nov 7 — According to a Gartner report out November 6, 821 million smartphones and tablets will be purchased by the end of the year, accounting for 70 per cent of total devices sold in 2012, and by 2013 the number of tablets sold will have passed 1 billion.
The company also believes that by 2016, tablets will have replaced computers in most companies and that more of us will become mobile workers as a result.
“In 2016, two-thirds of the mobile workforce will own a smartphone, and 40 per cent of the workforce will be mobile,” said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner.
Tablets will also be a key accelerator to mobility. Gartner estimates that in 2012 purchases of tablets by businesses will reach 13 million units and will more than triple by 2016, to reach 53 million units. This in turn will push Windows down to third position below Apple’s iOS operating system in second and Android in first place as the most popular platform.
As recently as 15 years ago, the technology we used at work — including phones and desktop and laptop computers — was far more expensive and powerful than anything in the average home.
Now the tables have turned and the mobile and desktop devices people take for granted at home are far superior to what they find sitting on their desks when they come into work in the morning. And it is this shift in power that is fuelling trends such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and that is in turn forcing businesses to re-examine their IT needs and their approach to productivity.
“In just 12 months businesses have moved from resisting Apple to accepting its devices in the organization. CIOs who balance workers’ passion for Apple with the needs of IT will reap surprising benefits and prepare the business for entry of other consumer-market vendor technologies, as this is just the beginning,” said Milanesi. — AFP/Relaxnews


In Conclusion, i think the PC is dead because every device is getting smaller so it broke as soon as possible so you buy new one. Its made like that to maximize profit to the companies.