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Actually, PC sales increases in 2018. https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/17567760/pc-sales-growth-idc-gartner-july-2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/1756

• ghaff 8y ago
  The devices are still sold. However, they're increasingly just used as browsers. I was just saying to someone that it's something of an irony that Chromebooks seem to have settled into something primarily for the K-12 education market when they're really all the PC that most people need. I actually travel on business with one a lot of the time but will probably replace it because no one really makes the hardware I want.
  • icebraining 8y ago
    > they're increasingly just used as browsers So what? A browser is all you need to make a website.
    • ghaff 8y ago
      Historically, when people have talked about desktops and laptops they have generally been thinking in terms of a stateful device that ran applications locally. Increasingly they're just a convenient form-factor to run a browser. They're effectively functioning as a modern-day thin client. When people say the desktop/laptop is largely dead. That's what they mean. [ADDED: That, and that web access is increasingly through a phone.]
  • WillPostForFood 8y ago
    It's Larry Ellison's Network Computer idea finally realized, 20 years later. https://www.cnet.com/news/oracle-to-debut-500-network-computer-1/ https://www.cnet.com/news/oracle-to-debut-500-network-comput...
    • ghaff 8y ago
      Yep. The browser + web has effectively evolved into what all the deliberate attempts to create thin clients mostly failed at. (Just as app stores largely do what application virtualization was supposed to.)