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They're very different markets with very different needs. The market share of PCs will fall, relative to phones, but never vanish, and as it falls the casual us
by PhasmaFelis 4y ago
They're very different markets with very different needs. The market share of PCs will fall, relative to phones, but never vanish, and as it falls the casual users will leave, leaving an even greater concentration of tinkerers.
There are hundreds of millions of passionate hobbyists of various types who use PCs specifically because of their deep versatility, including all of the nascent coders that the big corps depend on for their next generation of dev hires. Abandoning them would be like automakers abandoning the transport truck market because it's not as big as the family car market. They would lose a bunch of money, and money is the bottom line.
- Jenda_ 4y agoYou are right that the business depending on the "tradition" is way bigger than I anticipated. > There are hundreds of millions of passionate hobbyists of various types who use PCs specifically because of their deep versatility I think there would be lots of hobbyists tinkering with smartphones… > including all of the nascent coders that the big corps depend on for their next generation of dev hires This is something I sometimes worry about: I think most of current developers/sysadmins/hackers started by tinkering with their computer, playing with snippets of HTML/Python/shell, and therefore we will get much less coders in the near future, as kids are moving to devices which do not allow such easy tinkering? (yes, I know there are smartphone apps that provide some functionality, but I think it's generally less accessible)