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The parent post didn't say anything thoughtful. The same spiel about Windows going down the drain has been repeated for years. People not using computers is jus
by eecks 11y ago
The parent post didn't say anything thoughtful. The same spiel about Windows going down the drain has been repeated for years. People not using computers is just mindlessly repeated these days.
You're asking me to provide data or links to other arguments but the initial statement provided neither.
Why did you call my comment out but not the other two similar responses to the same line?
I could say that you proved my comment to provocative and took the bait but then we'll spiral into comment hell.
- carbocation 11y agoI replied to your post because I saw it first. Had I seen the others at the time, I might have just moved on.
- newjersey 11y agoWhat I understand when people say the PC is dying is not that people will not touch a desktop or laptop at all in the foreseeable future but rather that the growth in sales will be much sharpernwith phones and tabletsbthan with desktop and laptop devices. They're not making broad, futuristic predictions. They're just trying to make sense of the market. The fact that Apple released a whole line of iPads kindnof shows this. That is just my opinio though.
- douche 11y agoMoore's Law is slowing down, and PCs and laptops are having longer effective lifetimes. I've got an eight year old laptop that's still serviceable - actually runs better with Windows 10 than it did with the Vista that came on it. It's not obsolescence every eighteen months any more. That's where phones are now. In a few years, they'll mature, and it'll be how VR goggles or the next gewgaw are killing the PC. Meanwhile PCs will still be there anywhere actual work and creation needs to happen. Or maybe I'm a prematurely old man, who's looking for kids to yell at about getting off his lawn. But I haven't found a use for tablets other than watching TV or reading, and I can't even really do those functions on a phone. Much less use a phone as a phone. What percentage of smartphones are primarily used as uber-expensive, complicated digital watches or alarm clocks?
- johnmaguire2013 11y agoWhich is exactly the point I (the parent comment of this thread) was trying to make: The desktop/laptop (which I described using the term computer in my original post) market is declining. Not because they aren't used anymore, but because I don't need to replace them anymore.
- coldtea 11y agoYou do realize that that's a totally different argument that "nobody cares about computers anymore".
- johnmaguire2013 11y agoThe market doesn't care anymore about getting the hot new computer. They care about the new, shinier gadgets. I don't think it's a different argument.
- coldtea 11y agoIt is. In one we have "the market" as the one who cares or not. On the other we have "the people". The people will continue to care for and use computers, even if the hot new market is something else.
- eecks 11y agoFair enough. I didn't meant to start a "thing" with my comment but thought maybe it would make you explain what you meant. I'll word my comments better in future.