But 'the PC' is a slippery term. That analyst didn't declare the death of 'the PC' in the sense of "a traditional desktop or laptop computer", he declared the death of 'the PC' in the sense of Wintel. So for example, the Mac is a PC in sense 1, but (still, mostly) not in sense 2. Of course the two phenomena are closely related by now, and the sense-2 PC is under a certain amount of pressure too. But the fate of the traditional desktop/laptop is a much wider question, and more tied in to Big Questions about the future of software.