The term “tablet PC” was coined in around 2000, and 10 years later we saw the first headline – “The PC Officially Died Today” – giving rise to a decade-long debate, with most tech pundits convinced that the PC would go extinct by 2020.

SOUTH Korea has seen a major shift to smartphones for Internet activities over the last five years, with a corresponding decrease in the use of desktop PCs, according to government data.