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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (16804)	5/4/2003 12:13:20 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) of 57684

well, I don't know. I have heard the PC is dead for years, the last time was the thin client revolution, semi equips were worried then for the same reason, although processing power was still needed it was on fewer (larger) computers in the middle and the client needed fewer chips. I think that might have been the 98 trough? Seems to me this period is not much different, we know we have growth in broadband and wireless/wifi stuff which doesn't directly affect PCs but in the end more traffic and bandwidth has to go somewhere. This apple branch into music downloads seems like another killer app to me... Napster was a killer app until the record industry killed it after all. So if PCs continue to be the medium for streaming media, I don't think they are dead. It will be interesting to see how sales look at the Apple chipmakers going forward. I think they use IBM so no way to break it out for the general PC slump. Looks like Apple continues to build engaging products unlike wintel. I'm ready to declare windoze growth dead, windoze and the office suite are bloatware and I'd dump them if I could.

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