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Why Desktop Computing Failed

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Traditional desktop computing has failed. It failed partly because we couldn’t handle the great power and great responsibility of a full-blown operating system. Help is here and there’s an app for that.

Desktop computing failed because of you and me, the end user. Software manufacturers, as much as we’d love to blame them, are not at fault. They tried to fulfill our every wish and whim but they just couldn’t–not with a desktop operating system. With applications, they excel but with desktops not so much. Desktops can’t be all things to all people. Apple realized that with its introduction of iOS and its App Store. The local operating system has lost its importance. Traditional desktop computing failed and not a moment too soon.

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