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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

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This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011. The late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, famously announced the post-PC era in March 2011 during the launch of the iPad 2. Refurbishment and the Environment. Jobs was as usual quite prescient. The consumer PC market is the one that is shrinking.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. The post-PC world was inadvertently ratified by HP when it made a dramatic announcement in August 2011 about trying to get out of the PC hardware business. Refurbishment and the Environment.