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The main usage of computers even before mobile phones was to browse the web, read and write emails and play games. Web and mail is mostly done on phones now. N
by TekMol 4y ago
The main usage of computers even before mobile phones was to browse the web, read and write emails and play games. Web and mail is mostly done on phones now. Not sure about games.
The use cases you mention are much smaller.
Steve Jobs had the right analogy: Tablets are cars, desktop computers are trucks. Few people use trucks. Most use cars.
- rowanG077 4y agoThere is absolutely no one I know who uses a tablet as their primary work computer. No one. That analogy instantly breaks down because of this. As if everyone drives to work primarily using their trucks. The even more sad thing is that the iPad hardware is absolutely capable to be the primary computer for people. It's simply Apples refusal to allow a real OS to run on it that keeps holding it back.
- yourusername 4y agoYoung people, the poor, many people in developing countries tend to all be mobile only. I don't have hard figures but i would estimate the number of people who do all their "computing" on a phone or tablet numbers in the billions.
- rowanG077 4y agoRight. a phone/tablet is still better then nothing.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoIt's not so much about having a real OS than about the input. Mouse & keyboard is just so much better.
- rowanG077 4y agoIpad has Mouse & keyboard
- BlueTemplar 4y agoAs a secondary option. Compare with Surface (Pro), which has the opposite "issue".
- ReptileMan 4y agoAnd yet SUV/Pickup is the most popular category of vehicles in the USA