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Yet not long ago everybody was anticipating the end of the general-purpose PC because a tablet (with an optional keyboard) was seen as good enough for "ordinary
by tannhaeuser 10y ago
Yet not long ago everybody was anticipating the end of the general-purpose PC because a tablet (with an optional keyboard) was seen as good enough for "ordinary people", and the merger of MacOS into iOS is expected any day now.
Now what is it?
- mercer 10y agoI think that assessment wasn't entirely wrong, it's just that smartphones, rather than tablets, turned out to be that general-purpose PC for many people.
- alanfalcon 10y agoSmartphones got much larger. I think if it were just Apple, we'd still have tiny screens on our phones and iPads for general purpose computing at home. Thankfully there is competition and people voted for larger phones with their wallets, so now our phones are as large as we "need" them to be.
- mercer 10y agoI'm sure that played a role. Personally I hate big phones, which is why I have the smallest iPhone (thankfully they keep that option, at least) and an iPad Mini. But many people around me are perfectly happy to use a big ass-phone for most of what they do. Good for them :-).
- tannhaeuser 10y agoI, too, dislike big honking 5+" smartphones, and while I could see how they replace mini tablets, I don't think they can be used as general-purpose computing device in the way a tablet can.