Pandemic Revived PC From ‘Dead’: Dell’s Strategy Point Man

The COVID-19 pandemic set “a new watermark” in the number of PCs per household, Matt Baker, Dell Technologies senior vice president-corporate strategy, told the Raymond James technology investor conference Monday. What was one or two PCs per household before COVID-19 is “now one or two per person,” he said. “The pandemic has reinforced the PC as the prime productivity platform.” The world was saying “the PC was dead when they saw phones and tablets, but we all know that it's no fun working on a phone or a tablet,” he said. If there's any “silver lining” to the pandemic, it’s that the health crisis “placed our business on the critical path for everybody's lives,” he said.