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Buying an iPad is buying a second device of a kind different than anything you currently have. Buying another computer is done to replace one that is obsolete
by coffeedrinker 15y ago
Buying an iPad is buying a second device of a kind different than anything you currently have.
Buying another computer is done to replace one that is obsolete (something that is less frequent over the last several years).
In other words, computer sales were destined to "fall off" a bit anyway. Once tablet devices reach a saturation point with limited benefit for upgrading, they will suffer a similar fate.
- erikpukinskis 15y agoYou are correct, but the event you're taking about (the "everyone who can afford one has a computer" event) happened years ago. We're already there. Destiny is history. That said, things never really decline, because prices are going down, the need for computing is going up, and so the market is always expanding and sales just steadily grow now and forever. You only ever see these kinds of false "declines" where people are really just shifting to a different kind of computer.