Many thought that the post-PC era assumed that iPads would replace computers, which has happened in many cases and where they have largely surpassed them, but not in many others.
However, with Covid-19 I am seeing that the post-pc era had already arrived.
The awakening of the dead pc
In my environment, acquaintances asked me for help to start teleworking. In this case they were small businesses where they didn't have a laptop, but a stationary one.
At home they have dusty computers, not very old, in some cases 1, 2 or 3 years old, which they practically did not use at all. In one of the cases they had not been able to start it for a year.
And what did they want it for? They did everything they needed from their mobile or iPad. Using the computer was a hassle, an inconvenience.
This was an odyssey. It was usually Windows PCs that started updating and going on for hours and hours. In one of the cases, with an i7 and 4 GB of Ram, almost 24 hours of updating were spent.
So it was time to pull Team Viewer to help set up the tools you need to get started (except in one case, where Windows decided to do hell and there's no way to get it working properly).
L’era post-pc
The post-pc era didn't come from the hand of the iPad, it came before, it came from the hand of the iPhone.
At the end of the 90s and during the 2000s, people bought computers as a tool to access the digital world, to be able to communicate via e-mail, take small steps, consult the web, get a ticket, book a hotel ...
However, the iPhone brought all of this to a device that performed those tasks much faster, more comfortably, and headache-free (which I'm reliving these days).
Then Android copied the concept and computers were relegated to work tools and for certain jobs, but fewer and fewer home users want it.
Like the example that Jobs gave in his day, people want cars, they don't want trucks for their daily life.
And more and more computers, the "PCs", will be relegated to a work field (and not only) and some individual who does something very specific or who has a lot of inertia and does not know / want to learn another way of doing things .
Without going any further, I consider myself rather a technophile, at home I use practically only the Mac to update it when a new system arrives and to get to know it a little, I do everything with the iPhone or the iPad.
The post-PC era was here.
