{"id":41860,"date":"2013-03-01T18:33:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=41860"},"modified":"2013-03-01T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:33:16","slug":"greed-killed-the-personal-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/greed-killed-the-personal-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Greed Killed the Personal Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gekko.jpg\" alt=\"gekko\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gekko.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gekko-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/br>By Bill Pytlovany<\/p>\n<h3>Greed Killed the Personal Computer<\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019ve read a lot of predictions about the death of the PC. Most of the articles assume the blame is due to the surge inthe use of tablets and powerful smart phones. If you\u2019re seeing the same updates that I do you\u2019ll agree the real death may be due to user apathy and greed.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 80\u2019s I remember a similar situation in a growing game market. Despite innovations in hardware a flood of poorly written, badly designed game cartridges killed the growth of gaming and home based consoles.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written a lot about the various ways software in the personal computer market is failing. It\u2019s now obvious that I was forecasting the death of the personal computer as we now know it.<\/p>\n<p>Last October I wrote about \u201cThe Dangers of Downloading Free Software\u201d. The previous year I focused on \u201cDangerous Downloads on Legitimate Websites &#038; Search Engines\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The New Business Plan, Installing Unwanted Software<br \/>\nA number of my posts have been warnings about unwanted software like toolbars. I have discussed the potential revenue I gave up in \u201cWould you like Toolbar with your Software Order?\u201d (Jan 2008) and \u201cNo, I Don&#8217;t Want Your #^$% Toolbar\u201d (March 2009) <\/p>\n<p>Recently, I actually begged people to remove a Java security risk and pointed out how Oracle was trying to install the Ask.com Toolbar on each update of their flawed software. I had forgotten that even before Sun was purchased by Oracle they were pushing the MSN Toolbar and I included screen shots in my post \u201cSun Java Promoting Microsoft Toolbar\u201d (April 2009)<\/p>\n<p>Most friends followed my advice about current threats from Java but this week I am alerting friends that Adobe is updating their popular Flash program.  I\u2019m starting to sound like chicken little. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/billpstudios.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/death-of-personal-computer-due-to-greed.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This post is excerpted with Bill&#8217;s permission from his blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gekko.jpg\" alt=\"gekko\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gekko.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gekko-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read a lot of predictions about the death of the PC. Most of the articles assume the blame is due to the surge inthe use of tablets and powerful smart phones. If you\u2019re seeing the same updates that I do you\u2019ll agree the real death may be due to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bill-pytlovany"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Greed Killed the Personal Computer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u2019ve read a lot of predictions about the death of the PC. 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