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Arguably the people using restricted mobile devices exclusively would have never used PCs. These are the same people that 10 years ago where buying DVD players,

Arguably the people using restricted mobile devices exclusively would have never used PCs. These are the same people that 10 years ago where buying DVD players, PlayStations and other limited appliances for their living room, because PCs are way too complicated for some people. And you can't really blame them. Just the other day I cleaned my father's computer of viruses. I also believe the market for content producers that need general purpose computing devices is bigger than ever, and growing. It's just that it's being eclipsed by the market of content consumers. Plus upgrade cycles have gotten much longer, 4 or 5-year old PCs being totally fine. And speaking of phones, dumb phones are dead, the smartphone is the new norm, yet how many smartphone users are heavy Internet and apps users? I bet it's not that many.

cm3 11y ago
> 4 or 5-year old PCs being totally fine Especially content producers can easily use up all hardware enhancements for rendering and such, so they do appreciate a newer machine.
- bad_user 11y ago
  I'm a software developer, so I'm arguably a content producer. I have a 4 year old laptop that's still fine for software development, even though I'm using heavy tools to do it (e.g. Scala, IntelliJ IDEA), I only had to replace its battery. Producing content doesn't necessarily mean 3D rendering. It can mean just writing Word / Excel / PowerPoint documents.
  - dzhiurgis 11y ago
    I guess in your case you are more of a content input, rather than producer. Or perhaps producers should be called content farmers/hackers.
    - bad_user 11y ago
      Content, noun: 1. the amount of a particular constituent occurring in a substance. 2. the material dealt with in a speech, literary work, etc. as distinct from its form or style. 3. information made available by a website or other electronic medium. Producer, noun: 1. a person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities. 2. a person or thing that makes or causes something. Maybe we are not speaking the same language.
  - cm3 11y ago
    I struggled to find a single short description for activities that can easily saturate a modern PC's processing power and I/O, but I couldn't really. Let's not get hung up on naming here.

cm3 11y ago

> 4 or 5-year old PCs being totally fine Especially content producers can easily use up all hardware enhancements for rendering and such, so they do appreciate a newer machine.

bad_user 11y ago
I'm a software developer, so I'm arguably a content producer. I have a 4 year old laptop that's still fine for software development, even though I'm using heavy tools to do it (e.g. Scala, IntelliJ IDEA), I only had to replace its battery. Producing content doesn't necessarily mean 3D rendering. It can mean just writing Word / Excel / PowerPoint documents.
- dzhiurgis 11y ago
  I guess in your case you are more of a content input, rather than producer. Or perhaps producers should be called content farmers/hackers.
  - bad_user 11y ago
    Content, noun: 1. the amount of a particular constituent occurring in a substance. 2. the material dealt with in a speech, literary work, etc. as distinct from its form or style. 3. information made available by a website or other electronic medium. Producer, noun: 1. a person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities. 2. a person or thing that makes or causes something. Maybe we are not speaking the same language.
- cm3 11y ago
  I struggled to find a single short description for activities that can easily saturate a modern PC's processing power and I/O, but I couldn't really. Let's not get hung up on naming here.