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Smartphones are not technologically capable of doing all things a desktop can right now, but they are quickly moving in that direction (in terms of speed/capaci

Smartphones are not technologically capable of doing all things a desktop can right now, but they are quickly moving in that direction (in terms of speed/capacity). When they are and you can dock your phone to a larger screen/keyboard at work and then take it when you are ready to go and access the same apps/data on the go, the traditional desktop PC market for the majority of people will die quickly. Technologically, consumer electronics in Japan is not as far ahead of western countries as it once was in the 90s. Going into a Japanese electronics store, you will find it does not look that much different from a Best Buy in the US. What does look different? All those "different kind of devices for different purposes" have folded into smartphones.

ekianjo 12y ago
> the traditional desktop PC market for the majority of people will die quickly. Who cares about the traditional market ? The point of the article is that the PC will die. It's simply not going to be the case, even if the PC stops being mainstream - there will still be USES for the PC, even if it's for a minority of people. And it does not look like it, there are still hundreds of millions of PCs sold every year, and they are not replaced as fast as subsidized phones and tablets, therefore it "looks like" the PC is dying, except it isn't.
- mreiland 12y ago
  This idea "becomes new" every few years, and yet PC games are predicted to outsell console games by the end of 2014. What most people misunderstand is that, given the choice, most people would choose a PC for a lot of their computing needs. The issue is lugging that PC around everywhere they go. In other words, physics doesn't give people that choice, and so other form factors become extremely popular. But at no point will PC's be replaced by them. It's been predicted before, and they were wrong then too.

ekianjo 12y ago

> the traditional desktop PC market for the majority of people will die quickly. Who cares about the traditional market ? The point of the article is that the PC will die. It's simply not going to be the case, even if the PC stops being mainstream - there will still be USES for the PC, even if it's for a minority of people. And it does not look like it, there are still hundreds of millions of PCs sold every year, and they are not replaced as fast as subsidized phones and tablets, therefore it "looks like" the PC is dying, except it isn't.

mreiland 12y ago
This idea "becomes new" every few years, and yet PC games are predicted to outsell console games by the end of 2014. What most people misunderstand is that, given the choice, most people would choose a PC for a lot of their computing needs. The issue is lugging that PC around everywhere they go. In other words, physics doesn't give people that choice, and so other form factors become extremely popular. But at no point will PC's be replaced by them. It's been predicted before, and they were wrong then too.