HOLY CRAP! Check Out How Thin The Latest Issue Of Time Magazine Is!

Time magazine was kind enough to send us a couple of complimentary issues to showcase its Davos coverage.

(Yes, we know, Davos was months ago, but we guess some folks are still interested in it.)

Anyway, the main thing that occurred to us as we slipped the issues out of the envelope was that there must be some sort of mistake.

These couldn't be actual issues of Time magazine, could they? These pamphlets?

Time magazine used to be thick and beefy, stuffed chock full of ads. Of the newsweeklies, it was supposed to just be Newsweek that had shat the bed--Time magazine was supposedly still coining money. So these HAD to be some sort of special international edition, didn't they?

It seems not.

As best we can tell, the two issues Time was kind enough to send us are ACTUAL RECENT ISSUES.

And, holy crap, are they thin!!!

Here's a top-down view. That's a pen on the left and an iPhone on the right.

And here's the sideview. The pen (left) and iPhone (right) tower over the darn thing!  In fact, the magazine is hardly thicker than the iPhone's SCREEN!

Here's hoping Time's circulation revenue is hanging in there. Because they sure can't be eating well on those ads...

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HOLY CRAP! Check Out How Thin The Latest Issue Of Time Magazine Is!

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The PC's Death By A Thousand Cuts: Tablets Today, Thin Clients Tomorrow

Today's Gartner forecast of PC sales focused primarily on the consumer market, which is already being impacted by media tablets such as the iPad.

But there was more bad news for PC makers buried near the end: businesses are showing increasing interest in hosted virtual desktops (HVDs). That means that instead of of buying new PCs every three to seven years to support the latest OS and applications, companies can use inexpensive terminals or stick with old refurbished PCs.

With virtual desktops, the desktop operating system is actually running in a virtual machine on a back-end server. Cheaper hardware isn't the only benefit for companies: IT departments no longer have to touch thousands of desktops every time they want to deploy an app or patch the OS. But to employees, it looks and feels more or less like using a regular PC.

According to Gartner's predictions, HVDs won't start impacting the PC market until 2012 or later. But when this happens, it's another knife cut to the old PC industry.

Citrix and VMWare are leaders in this space today and stand to gain. Microsoft will probably be OK--a lot of virtual PCs will still use Office, and Microsoft has reluctantly started offering a licensing model that makes it easier for companies to buy Windows this way instead of on new PCs (as 85% of Windows sales are today).

The losers in this switch will be big business PC providers like HP and Dell, whose last quarter was saved by strong business sales. They'll make it up somewhat in sales of new servers and services, but upgrade cycles for servers tend to be longer and the number of units per sale is typically much lower.

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See Also:

• Dell Beats Street On Business Sales, Stock Soars
• Office 2010 Helps MSFT Beat The Street
• The FT Gives Its Staff $480 To Buy An iPad, Or Other Tablet

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Comment on VLC on Thin Ice at the App Store? by Tyler

This is ridiculous. I love open source software, but realistically, if I wanted to modify it in a way that I could use, I would just download the source code and put it on my own phone that way. This if a free app, open source code, who cares if the actual distributed copy has some DRM on it? I thought open source was supposed to make software more easily accessible. If it's yanked out of the app store, they'll just be denying people some great software all due to an ego match.

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Comment on VLC on Thin Ice at the App Store? by Mike Perry

Let me get this right. Soon, users won't be free to get a copy of a Free Software Foundation application for their iPhones because rules developed a decade and more ago for distributing software to desktop computers are being violated, rules that seem to assume that every iPhone user is ready, willing and able to recode and branch their own version of VLC. Like Black and Ian before me, I suspect the Free Software Foundation needs to tweak their policies for apps running on mobile devices. I may get mad if my iMac crashes and I have to reboot, or even use my laptop until I can fix the problem. But I simply can't afford to have my iPhone crashing, shutting off all phone contact with the world. In short, an iPhone isn't a desktop computer and apps for it shouldn't be forced to play by the same rules. The FSF rules need to bend a bit to take into account that difference.

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