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The US market for laptops is 21 billion [1], for desktops 11 billion [2], and tablets 11bn [3]. With 123 million households in the US, the mean spending on lap

The US market for laptops is 21 billion [1], for desktops 11 billion [2], and tablets 11bn [3]. With 123 million households in the US, the mean spending on laptops, desktops and tablets together is $350/year per household. Smartphone sales were $74 billion [4] or $600/household/year. That's a total of $950/year, per household. The average American household isn't spending $11,000+ every 2 years. [1] https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/consumer-electronics/computing/laptops/united-states#revenue https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/consumer-electronics/co... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/722371/united-states-desktop-pc-revenues/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/722371/united-states-des... [3] https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/consumer-electronics/computing/tablets/united-states#revenue https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/consumer-electronics/co... [4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/191985/sales-of-smartphones-in-the-us-since-2005/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/191985/sales-of-smartpho...

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The lower limit of the example budget above was $8,000 and considering a family of 4 over 2 to 4 years. "Apple generated $365 billion revenue in 2021, 52% came from iPhone sales" [1] Taking Apple as example, those billions have to come from someone. The greater point was that instead of having the billions try to make every single device the most powerful CPU/GPU of the current Moore's Law peak, because no one wants a slow device, you might just as well have a bare glass able to render pixels computed on a remote powerful machine, but that machine must be owned by the user. And you don't stream an app, a browser, you stream an entire OS, on the spot, on request. [1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics

ly3xqhl8g9 4y ago

The lower limit of the example budget above was $8,000 and considering a family of 4 over 2 to 4 years. "Apple generated $365 billion revenue in 2021, 52% came from iPhone sales" [1] Taking Apple as example, those billions have to come from someone. The greater point was that instead of having the billions try to make every single device the most powerful CPU/GPU of the current Moore's Law peak, because no one wants a slow device, you might just as well have a bare glass able to render pixels computed on a remote powerful machine, but that machine must be owned by the user. And you don't stream an app, a browser, you stream an entire OS, on the spot, on request. [1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics