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> People have been saying PC's are dying for the last 10 or so years And they have been, losing sales first to consoles and then to smartphones and tablets. Ch

by vor_ 14y ago

> People have been saying PC's are dying for the last 10 or so years And they have been, losing sales first to consoles and then to smartphones and tablets. Children are growing up on Xboxes and iPads, not PCs. Desktop PCs will be like pickup trucks, to reference Steve Jobs's famous analogy. Someone will always need them, but most people won't have them.

DigitalSea 14y ago
A pretty slow death in my opinion. It's not the massive coronary rupture we've been told it is, more like an untreated paper cut very slowly but surely bleeding. I might not be in the majority then, but the thought of using a tablet tethered to a screen doesn't feel like it'll ever be a decent alternative (well at least not an Apple tablet). Tablets as they stand aren't going to kill anything, much like phones and consoles because they're so heavily restricted in what you can do as well as what storage capacity they have and storage capacity as an avid Bittorrent user is important to me. The day that providers start releasing tablets with 1TB of storage and ability to add-on additional storage with ease is the day a tablet can compete with a computer. We live in the day and age of extreme data consumption, tablets with their minuscule 64gb of storage aren't enough to store the modern day PC users information. Cloud storage might eventually fill that gap one day, but the Internet even in some of the most developed countries is still unbelievably behind and bandwidth still expensive (and I would know, I live in Australia and people in New Zealand pay even more for less) not to mention cloud storage as proven by Amazon's constant downtime isn't reliable enough to store information that is guaranteed to be accessible all of the time nor can you access cloud data without an Internet connection and wireless Internet connection options like 3G or 4G are very expensive for so little in data allowances.

by vor_ 14y ago

DigitalSea 14y ago

A pretty slow death in my opinion. It's not the massive coronary rupture we've been told it is, more like an untreated paper cut very slowly but surely bleeding. I might not be in the majority then, but the thought of using a tablet tethered to a screen doesn't feel like it'll ever be a decent alternative (well at least not an Apple tablet). Tablets as they stand aren't going to kill anything, much like phones and consoles because they're so heavily restricted in what you can do as well as what storage capacity they have and storage capacity as an avid Bittorrent user is important to me. The day that providers start releasing tablets with 1TB of storage and ability to add-on additional storage with ease is the day a tablet can compete with a computer. We live in the day and age of extreme data consumption, tablets with their minuscule 64gb of storage aren't enough to store the modern day PC users information. Cloud storage might eventually fill that gap one day, but the Internet even in some of the most developed countries is still unbelievably behind and bandwidth still expensive (and I would know, I live in Australia and people in New Zealand pay even more for less) not to mention cloud storage as proven by Amazon's constant downtime isn't reliable enough to store information that is guaranteed to be accessible all of the time nor can you access cloud data without an Internet connection and wireless Internet connection options like 3G or 4G are very expensive for so little in data allowances.