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As people use desktops less and less, they care less and less about what runs on them.
by snazz 7y ago
As people use desktops less and less, they care less and less about what runs on them.
- belltaco 7y agoThat narrative of the post-PC world collapsed when the sales of tablets like iPads collapsed.
- freehunter 7y agoCouple of things: 1) Tablets aren't the only "post-PC" platform. Most of the leisure computing is done on smartphones when it would have been done on a laptop or desktop 5-10 years ago. 2) If we're considering tablets to be PC replacements, we should expect their sales trends to be along the lines of PC sales. People keep PCs a lot longer than smartphones, so we should expect people to keep their iPads a lot longer than their phones too. 3) Tablet sales have absolutely not collapsed [1] [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-forecast-for-tablets-laptops-and-desktop-pcs/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-...
- Razengan 7y agoFrom what I could tell, iPads are the only tablets still going strong and getting even better. It’s Google who threw in the towel on tablets. See the recently revealed iPadOS: https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/ https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/