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Well, when I look at younger people (18-24) I often see a pattern of users that don't own a PC and most of the time don't even own a laptop. They use smartphon

Well, when I look at younger people (18-24) I often see a pattern of users that don't own a PC and most of the time don't even own a laptop. They use smartphones and sometimes tablets for most tasks. That might change once they get older, but maybe it wont. So I think it's a good idea for any company that was/is in the PC/laptop business to try and capture as much mobile computing marketshare as possible.

tempodox 11y ago
I use a tablet and a desktop computer besides my mobile phone and even for me, there is a noticeable gravitational pull towards “mobile computing”. While a dedicated screen and keyboard are clearly ergonomically superior, I just love the fact that I can hook a Bluetooth keyboard to my squawk box and make it a mobile remote terminal. All that's missing is infrastructure to log into your “home” (whatever that is) securely and with your privacy intact.
- solnyshok 11y ago
  can you elaborate on the "home" part of this? do you have a 24x7 box at home? then openvpn solves secure access part. or, did you mean the lack "needed but not existing yet home control hub for lights, heating, fridge, music, surveillance, etc."?
maxerickson 11y ago
I think for casual users of any age, having a desktop at all has become atypical.
vilmosi 11y ago
Younger people. As in unemployed or McJobs. They never had a PC. For students, gamers and young professionals, they all have a PC.
- DominikR 11y ago
  This is simply not true. I know many students that don't have a PC, only a laptop at most that is almost never used. (only to write papers) Those students are not studying anything tech related. (Psychology and stuff like that) And doing mundane tech related tasks only with a smartphone is not as bad or awkward as one would imagine. For example for scanning documents I use my PC (built out of components I picked myself) that dual boots into Windows 7 / Mac OSX (Hackintosh - lots of fiddling around with drivers) that is connected to a scanner via network cable. (which often does not work without restarting the scanner) My girlfriend uses a non modified out of the box iPhone and does the same thing with much less effort (if you count the time I invested in my setup and keeping it running) with an app that uses the phones camera to "scan" documents. I was completely baffled when I first saw that. She doesn't have to care about setting up the OS (okay, you can buy a PC with preinstalled OS), dealing with updates and drivers, downloading and manually installing software from some website and managing storage. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't even need a laptop if she had a quality tablet with a good bluetooth keyboard.

tempodox 11y ago

I use a tablet and a desktop computer besides my mobile phone and even for me, there is a noticeable gravitational pull towards “mobile computing”. While a dedicated screen and keyboard are clearly ergonomically superior, I just love the fact that I can hook a Bluetooth keyboard to my squawk box and make it a mobile remote terminal. All that's missing is infrastructure to log into your “home” (whatever that is) securely and with your privacy intact.

solnyshok 11y ago
can you elaborate on the "home" part of this? do you have a 24x7 box at home? then openvpn solves secure access part. or, did you mean the lack "needed but not existing yet home control hub for lights, heating, fridge, music, surveillance, etc."?

maxerickson 11y ago

I think for casual users of any age, having a desktop at all has become atypical.

vilmosi 11y ago

Younger people. As in unemployed or McJobs. They never had a PC. For students, gamers and young professionals, they all have a PC.

DominikR 11y ago
This is simply not true. I know many students that don't have a PC, only a laptop at most that is almost never used. (only to write papers) Those students are not studying anything tech related. (Psychology and stuff like that) And doing mundane tech related tasks only with a smartphone is not as bad or awkward as one would imagine. For example for scanning documents I use my PC (built out of components I picked myself) that dual boots into Windows 7 / Mac OSX (Hackintosh - lots of fiddling around with drivers) that is connected to a scanner via network cable. (which often does not work without restarting the scanner) My girlfriend uses a non modified out of the box iPhone and does the same thing with much less effort (if you count the time I invested in my setup and keeping it running) with an app that uses the phones camera to "scan" documents. I was completely baffled when I first saw that. She doesn't have to care about setting up the OS (okay, you can buy a PC with preinstalled OS), dealing with updates and drivers, downloading and manually installing software from some website and managing storage. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't even need a laptop if she had a quality tablet with a good bluetooth keyboard.