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Steve Jobs famously likened touchscreen devices to cars and traditional PCs, including the Mac, to trucks. The idea was that in the future–especially as older people who grew up with keyboards and mice and were accustomed to them–computers would become marginalized, powerful tools that would be used for specific purposes. General-purpose computing, on the other hand, would become the province of the ubiquitous car.</p><p>
This story is frequently told in the context of the iPad. The argument is that the iPad and touchscreen tablets like it will ultimately replace the PC. And while that may yet happen, I think it misses the larger point. This entire thing has already happened. The world is being transformed into a smartphone-using culture. The smartphone is already the car, and everything else is a truck.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3022546/hardware/of-cars-trucks-ipads-and-laptops.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Cars, trucks, iPads, and laptops
