I can't help but roll my eyes at the idea that "mouse and keyboard" are dead. Yes, lots of touch devices are now being sold, but a lot of them are being sold i

I can't help but roll my eyes at the idea that "mouse and keyboard" are dead. Yes, lots of touch devices are now being sold, but a lot of them are being sold into a channel in which nobody used a physical keyboard or mouse before (phones) and the rest are being sold into a device category that didn't quite exist before (tablets). A lot of people seem to be misreading the decline of PC/laptop sales and the rise of tablets and smartphones as being totally interrelated when I don't believe they are. Certainly some percentage of tablets are purchases that otherwise would be have been netbooks, but IMO the bigger issue with PC/laptop sales dropping is people (granted, I'm only discussing First World people) generally already have one AND just don't need new ones as often anymore. Anything with a Core 2 Duo and 4+ gigabytes of RAM "ought to be enough for anyone" (and in my experience, for non-power-users it certainly is). I'm a hardcore developer/gamer/"power-user" and even my system buying and major upgrade lifecycle has extended to about 3-4 years when it used to be 6 months to a year, combine that lifecycle extension with the fact that most people can get by with just a laptop (because the practical power difference between even a low-end laptop and a desktop are insignificant) and it isn't any wonder that PC/laptop sales have suffered for everyone but Apple who is one of the few smart enough to be selling systems with actual new-system differentiation ("Retina" screens). tl; dr - I know lots of people (including myself) who have bought new smartphones and tablets over the past few years. I don't know a single one of them who doesn't use a "real" computer with mouse/keyboard daily and on average much more than their tablet/smartphone (if you exclude phone talking from the smartphone use). But their smartphones are probably like <1 year old (because significant practical hardware progress is still being made in this space) while their laptops might be years old and plenty fine for what they use them for.