Now these former growth superstars are more mature, some might argue less nimble, and they are each trying to deal with the encroachment of the tablet and smartphones on technology spending market share that once was sure to belong to the PC-industrial complex.

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She owns a San Francisco sign and graphics company with her husband, but says she has trouble interfacing the industrial sewing machine or her vinyl silhouette cutter with her PC.

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