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Phones and tablets may some day supplant the PC as the primary devices for consumption. But PCs are certainly not going to be replaced as the primary devices fo
by cwyers 11y ago
Phones and tablets may some day supplant the PC as the primary devices for consumption. But PCs are certainly not going to be replaced as the primary devices for creation. Moreover, almost every app you use on a phone or tablet and every web page you view is powered by a server on the other end, and those servers are going to be PCs for the foreseeable future. Phones don't replace PCs, phones create demand for servers that PCs can and will fulfill.
- tsunamifury 11y agoPhones have already supplanted pcs in many forms of creation, photography, messaging, data gathering, gps, and many many more. The phone is now a primary photo editor for the majority of users. It's where I'm authoring this comment right now.
- loco5niner 11y agoEditing pictures for facebook and creating comments in a forum are are not particularly "forms of creation". Photoshopping a magazine cover and building a website are. As for photography, messaging, and gps. Well, of course. Those are a natural use for that form factor. I'm not going to take my laptop out to take a picture... (I'm kind of surprised you didn't mention that the phone is better for making phone calls too).
- toborrobot 11y agoNobody would take their laptop out to take a picture, but plenty of people use Skype on a laptop. Maybe it's a quirk of history that modern phones are named after the telephone; most phone usage involves reading text, not speaking or listening.
- loco5niner 11y agoAnd both of those uses are examples of consumption, not creation.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoSure. For a comment the size of a tweet, that's fine. I bet you're not writing long-form content on your phone, though. Or doing serious code development. For some content creation, there's nothing that can replace a real keyboard and a real (large) screen.