How Apple and Google are merging the PC with the smartphone. | Re/code

Walt Mossberg reflects on how the PC is becoming a mobile device accessory

"But just in the past month, it has become clear that a serious effort has begun to merge the smartphone and the PC, or at least, to bring some of the more familiar features of the surging smartphone to the tanking PC. We are seeing the start of what I expect to be a long-term trend to make PCs look and act more like smartphones, and to bring to the PC some of the functions of the phone.

It’s essentially the reverse of the old “Pocket PC” idea."

How Apple and Google are merging the PC with the smartphone. | Re/code