Smartphones and tablets won’t replace PCs: Dell

Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell remains bullish about the future of desktop and laptop PCs in spite of increased competition from mobile devices.

In an interview with India's Economic Times newspaper, Dell pointed out that PCs are generally used for different tasks than smartphones and tablets.

"Let's say you are going off to college... Would you take a smartphone instead of a tablet? Would you take a smartphone instead of a laptop? Will you write a paper or have your entire college experience on a smartphone?" Dell said.

Dell also said during the interview that he was very excited about the prospect of a Windows 8 tablet, as well as opportunities to supply the back-end servers for storing smartphone data.

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