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Page 1: PC Distributors: What Will They Become When the Desktop PC Disappears? (Slides)

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PC Distributors:

What Will They

Become When the

Desktop PC

Disappears? Courtesy of the

Small Business Computer Consulting Blog

http://blog.sphomerun.com Creative Commons Image Source: Flickr Nick Saltmarsh

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Reports are Rife

that the PC,

Desktop Version,

Does Not Have

Long to Live

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What Will Happen

to PC Distributors

and their PC

Specialist Channel

Partners?

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Will they Simply

Become “Tablet

Distributors” or

Will the Changes

be Deeply Rooted?

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According to

Industry Pundits,

There are a

Number of PC

Killers Lined Up:

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Tablet PCs

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Handy for all Sorts

of Things, Even if

they Don’t Have

the Screen Size of

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Desktop PC

Monitors Or a

Separate

Keyboard

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Is a Conversion to

Tablet Accessory

Distribution

Realistic

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For Hardware-

dependent PC

Distributors?

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Smartphones

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PC Distributors

Might Switch to

Smartphone

Distribution

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Within a Context

of Printers,

Monitors, and

Networking

Equipment,

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Essentially

Swapping out the

Desktop PC Heart

to Transplant the

Smartphone

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Zero Clients,

Network Computers,

and Browser-

Driven PCs

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Relies on

Some Central

Computing Server

To Do the

Heavy Lifting

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And has Little or

No Computing

Autonomy of its

Own

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PC Distributors

Might Concentrate

More on Servers

and Cloud

Networks

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But Then Again,

the Desktop PC is

Not Yet Dead and

Buried

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Judging from

Predictions of

Disappearance in

1996 (Steve Jobs)

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To Current

Estimates of End

of Life in 2020

(Tim Beyers,

The Motley Fool)

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PC Distributors

Might Not Have to

Worry About their

Future that Soon

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Where Do You See

Customers

Heading With

Requirements for

PCs?

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Will there be

Evolution or

Revolution?

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Tell Us About

Your Vision of the

Future in the

Comments

Section

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Please Share

Your Tips, Hints,

and Feedback in

the Comments

Area Below

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