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"I've always been the biggest proponent of powerful desktop computing and always felt like I was paddling against the tide. For the last decade I kept hearing about how the computer is becoming an appliance, and that mobile devices will rule the tech world. It's true, for surfing the Internet you can use anything from a dumb terminal to a phone. You do not need a quad-core machine with a two-terabyte drive."

Computers have been slowly turning into a commodity item. Some say it already is. As computing power becomes cheaper, we have seen the rise of computing appliances and mobile devices that can handle most consumer's day to day needs. Dvorak seems to go on a rant about how all this technology is now being used for the most trivial of applications, such as using an iPhone for a flashlight. Read more...