Looks like desktop and laptop computers are on the way out. The smartphone with it's always on internet browser is coming in. Use a tablet to connect to your smartphone's own hotspot if you want a larger screen. Portable, mobile use anywhere. Should also kill computer desk sales. Works for me.
Can't do graphics, photo, cam/cam, spreadsheets, and a dozen other things on a cellphone or even a tablet. Yes, full desktops boxes will lose popularity for many purposes and no doubt get smaller in size, but will never be "on the way out", any more than TV's. Another thing. I'll never use a cellphone or tablet for anything I need to view. I'm a geezer and can't see something that small fer dammit, and EVERYONE'S eyes get worse with age and EVERYONE ages.
Yep. A friend of mine has an ipad and it's nice for some things, but even in the limited time I spent playing with it I found quite a few times where a keyboard, mouse and larger display were really needed. I also do the CAD/CAM and CNC control on desktop type PCs, with a 26" monitor on my CAD/CAM PC. I certainly won't be doing any CAD/CAM work on a tiny phone or tablet screen.
Actually pretty accurate. Desktop sales continue to decline each year in favor of more portable devices.
The newer smartphones do a pretty good job of panning and zooming. My phone has an 8 megapixel camera so I am pretty sure it does photos and video (it also does stuff like scanning barcodes and has software that allows me to take a picture of a document and convert it into a PDF and send it via its full featured email client if I want), I can certainly do spreadsheets and I have no idea what cam/cam is.
And I do use the wireless hotspot for my tablet notebook.
You just showed us you don't know a whole heck of a lot about computers.
Hint: smart phones and tablets are designed for the consumption of content. Desktop pcs are used to create content. Bandwidth and consumption limits are also constraints that affect mobile computing to a greater degree.
Mobile computing doesn't supplant desktop computing. What it's doing is expanding the computer market.
And the reason is because the desktop market has reached saturation. More than 75% of the population owns one (or more) already. So instead of buying another one, they are buying a mobile device. For most people, it's not replacing their desktop, it's being used in addition to their desktop.
Which are ok for either req'd portability and/or the small viewpoint few-minute task...
But panning and zooming is _very_ time-consuming for _real_ work of any great magnitude. And the input devices for manual interaction are, to coin a phrase, "pathetic" simply owing to the size factor.
The workstation isn't going away; simply the number of alternates for other purposes is going up. I'd wager a fair amount of any decline in sales is tied to economic conditions more than the form factor for the market wherein workstations are important.
There are simply different types of work being done on the different platforms and I don't see that the large scale work is going to go away but the more or less trivial application has always outclassed the "power user" in sheer numbers and will continue to do so.
But as another poster notes, it's a far different thing to say that other markets grow than that the whole workstation market is going away
You'll not experience the actual computing power of a desktop in a tablet or smartphone for a good while to come. They couldn't touch this 4 ghz quad core AMD/Asus combo with 8 GB ram, NVidia CUDA support and 2 terabytes of SATA 3 storage. Oh, forgot the 32" HD monitor. :)
Nor can most people afford the no-longer-unlimited cell phone data plans, and there are vast parts of the country where cell phones barely work, if at all, for voice calls, much less a high speed data connection.
I think all these writers predicting the end of last-decade technology have never been to fly-over country. Desktops and laptops, and hard cable internet connections, will be with us for the next couple of decades, unless somebody invents a new way to blanket the country with wireless signal.
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