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Has Desktop Internet Use Peaked?
- visarga 11y agoI think desktop internet use will expand even further because many more people who have never owned will get desktops/laptops in the future. The illusion that the desktop has peaked is created by comparison to the amazing rate of growth of mobile. Between now and 2020, 3 billion more people are going to get a smartphone. That's a doubling of the current user base. In the meantime, desktops and laptops are more expensive, complex and less portable so they grow at a lesser rate. Even if there was a local peak in desktop use in 2015, if we remember how many billions of people have never afforded one, then there is a lot of potential growth left in there, too.
- T-A 11y agoI am not sure that desktop devices can still be said to be growing: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3054605/computers/pc-sales-plunge-further-as-windows-10-and-skylake-cpus-fail-to-inspire-upgrades.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/3054605/computers/pc-sales-pl...