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It would also be interesting to see figures for the number of machines in use by OS, instead of just sales by year. People replace their phones much more freque
by utexaspunk 15y ago
It would also be interesting to see figures for the number of machines in use by OS, instead of just sales by year. People replace their phones much more frequently than they do their PCs, but that doesn't mean they don't want their PCs or think that they can replace them with Android/iOS devices...
- talmand 15y agoI agree, my current computer is three-to-four years old and I still use it on a daily basis. I've been through three phones in that amount of time. According to that logic I prefer my phone 3-to-1 over my computer yet if I had to choose I would drop the phone over the computer without thinking twice. Plus, do the numbers account for saturation of the marketplace? PCs have been around for quite a while, Android and iOS have a much shorter lifespan with sales that have not peaked. I ask because I didn't read the article fully since I tend to avoid pronouncements such as "this thing here is dead!" we get every couple of months. Talk to me when PC sales have been trending seriously downward for five-to-ten years and then we can discuss the death of the platform.