You are right that the business depending on the "tradition" is way bigger than I anticipated. > There are hundreds of millions of passionate hobbyists of vari

You 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)