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I walked through Barnes and Nobel yesterday just to see if they might have an Xcode 4 book on the shelf and was surprised to see that at least 80 percent of the programming section was now taken over by the iPhone, iPad, Android and IOS. The remaining books were Perl, Python, C, and VB manuals that have been there for years. The book was available for order, but when I asked the order clerk about the mix of titles locally, he replied that "Programming on the PC past history. Everything is on the iPhone now," or words to that effect.
Now, I know that opinions of a store clerk who thinks that Xcode, Eclipse, or NetBeans are now run on a four inch screen, are worth exactly what an iPhone is worth for hosting a C compiler suite, but, after a year's worth of blogs and new blurbs that "The PC is dead," I realize that a good part of the non-technical world believes that.
But, today, if I read the news right, and if the news was correct, then Apple has sold a record number of Macs in the last fiscal quarter. Not counting the not inconsiderable number of Win machines stamped out for the more unfortunate, then the Laptop/Desktop isn't following the CD on the way out quite yet.
How many iPads would it take to host Mac-Forums.com?
Now, I know that opinions of a store clerk who thinks that Xcode, Eclipse, or NetBeans are now run on a four inch screen, are worth exactly what an iPhone is worth for hosting a C compiler suite, but, after a year's worth of blogs and new blurbs that "The PC is dead," I realize that a good part of the non-technical world believes that.
But, today, if I read the news right, and if the news was correct, then Apple has sold a record number of Macs in the last fiscal quarter. Not counting the not inconsiderable number of Win machines stamped out for the more unfortunate, then the Laptop/Desktop isn't following the CD on the way out quite yet.
How many iPads would it take to host Mac-Forums.com?