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Most of the mobile devices are, in fact, powerful enough to develop for themselves, what they lack is mostly decent input ergonomics and redesigned UIs for the
by nknight 15y ago
Most of the mobile devices are, in fact, powerful enough to develop for themselves, what they lack is mostly decent input ergonomics and redesigned UIs for the tools. (And in Apple's and a few other companies' cases, they have an excess of lockdown.), but that's not really the point.
I'll be using my laptops for the foreseeable future (seriously, people still use desktops?), but the IBM guy's point is that the mass market is moving on from what we consider "PCs". Geeks will absolutely still have them, other people not so much.
- jerhewet 15y ago> seriously, people still use desktops? Hell yes -- my desktop system is orders of magnitude faster than your laptop for development.
- nknight 15y agoWhat kind of development is that, exactly? I bet your IDE runs just as well on my laptop as on your desktop. Does your company not have a build farm? Why not?
- hencq 15y agoOrders of magnitude? I can believe your desktop is faster than a laptop, but 100x faster seems a stretch. Still, I think there are valid reasons for preferring a desktop. Besides it being faster, you can have bigger screens etc.
- jwn 15y agoI never understood that line of thinking. I have an wireless keyboard and mouse hooked up to my MacBook. When I hook up my external monitor I now have two screens, giving me more dekstop area than a single desktop. I don't see why anyone would want a desktop unless they have serious horsepower requirements.