The Past and the Future

It took us a few days to recover from last Saturday's Geek Dinner, but now we are refreshed and looking into the Future.

A little over a year ago when Lenovo purchased IBM's PC Unit, we thought it would up the competition level for Dell, and help us all escape Dell Hell. We also thought that TLCmagic would see a growing market locally for custom built pc's and computer repairs. Those were some of the reasons why we rented an Office on the Corner on the Square in Mountain Home, and began our Intern and Associates Program. Now, as we start looking at where things are headed in the near future it seems to us that computer repair is going to become just like color television repair (why repair it when you can buy a new one for $300?). It seems computers are becoming a bit of a commodity, and with Wal-Mart going into the Custom Computer Biz, the Commoditification will be complete. Sure there will be some of the people that want top of the line computers and they won't be able to get them at Wal-Mart, but the majority of people will just buy a cheap PC that is definately not worth repairing.

Networking and Support continues on for businesses and is what our focus has been on the last year, but they too are going down the same road. As new OS's come out like Vista they are becoming easier and easier to use so that anyone can setup a small network. Web Design continues, but is being replaced by things like Google Pages, and of course, Blogs, and so down the same road.

So as we look into where things are headed for computers and technology in the future we must rethink, rebuild, and tweak promptly and become a Wildly Agile Business. We might even decide to Go Bedouin. But thank goodness for Global MicroBranding!