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>Most of what I see normal consumers doing is in Android, typically on ARM Comparing cell phone OS to a desktop OS is a bit silly. Nobody in the corporate wor
by itsoktocry 4y ago
>Most of what I see normal consumers doing is in Android, typically on ARM
Comparing cell phone OS to a desktop OS is a bit silly. Nobody in the corporate world is doing work on Android.
- blagie 4y agoIntel is in the CPU market, not in the "corporate desktop" market. If you'd like to see how well trying to focus on that niche works, have a look at DEC Alpha, MIPS, PA-RISC, Itanium, Sparc, PowerPC, etc. At the end of the day, it comes down to manufacturing volume. Volume leads to investment in next-generation technologies. More investment means, at some point, competitors can't keep up. Manufacturing doesn't care too much about who the ultimate end user is.
- shortrounddev 4y agoWhy not
- josteink 4y agoHis point was trying to measure OS market-share by checking desktop-only is no longer a valid approach. Even big players like Microsoft are forced to offer their software and services on non-Windows platforms (like mobile and tablets!) if they want to remain relevant. So counting desktop only paints a false picture, wrt where users are and where computing is happening. And that last bit is what is relevant from a Intel POV. An increasing amount of compute is now done outside the Intel-chip arena of desktops, like it used to be before.