Glad PC's are a dieing breed
Gotta love the popularity of cell phones and laptops! My laptop screen died. So I stopped at a thrift store and low and behold I found a real nice monitor for 5 bucks! Today I went to a moving s...
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I've read that the tablet market is hitting a saturation point, where new tablets tend to be replacements for ones that wind up broken, stolen, or just so old that they can't run modern apps. The "good enough" plague which has caused PC sales to stagnate has hit tablets as well.
Smartphones are Apple's big profit center, but I've read that there are concerns of that market stagnating as well. Samsung bet a lot on that market, and they are not doing that well, from what I've read. However, smartphones do have the advantage of being a device virtually everyone needs since they can do so much. So, smartphones will always find a new market because they offer basic computing ability.
There is also tech fatigue as well. The Apple Watch was supposed to be a killer app... but I remember only two people ever having them, and they bought them just because they thought it was stylish. However, people don't want yet another device to charge and maintain, and the people who actually judge you by your expensive watch will respect you more if you sport an Omega or a Tag Heuer.
As for the humble PC, it isn't going anywhere. Just because PCs offer the ability to have a usable workflow (have Excel running, alt-tab to the web browser to grab some figures, paste them in, alt-tab and check for a message, etc.) No iOS or Android tablet can quickly and effectively do that as of now, even with the split-screen functionality. Of course, there are many people's whose needs will be met by a tablet... but desktops and laptops will still have their place.
Of course, there is one reason I like PCs. I can have what OS I want... but I can virtualize them. For example, my current desktop is a Mac that I run a Windows VM in for Web browsing (so malware infects the Windows VM which gets rolled back every week or so, and doesn't nuke my main computer.) No iOS or Android tablet is ever going to offer that functionality. I dislike any platform where I can't pop up a UNIX command prompt or a PowerShell prompt.
Smartphones are Apple's big profit center, but I've read that there are concerns of that market stagnating as well. Samsung bet a lot on that market, and they are not doing that well, from what I've read. However, smartphones do have the advantage of being a device virtually everyone needs since they can do so much. So, smartphones will always find a new market because they offer basic computing ability.
There is also tech fatigue as well. The Apple Watch was supposed to be a killer app... but I remember only two people ever having them, and they bought them just because they thought it was stylish. However, people don't want yet another device to charge and maintain, and the people who actually judge you by your expensive watch will respect you more if you sport an Omega or a Tag Heuer.
As for the humble PC, it isn't going anywhere. Just because PCs offer the ability to have a usable workflow (have Excel running, alt-tab to the web browser to grab some figures, paste them in, alt-tab and check for a message, etc.) No iOS or Android tablet can quickly and effectively do that as of now, even with the split-screen functionality. Of course, there are many people's whose needs will be met by a tablet... but desktops and laptops will still have their place.
Of course, there is one reason I like PCs. I can have what OS I want... but I can virtualize them. For example, my current desktop is a Mac that I run a Windows VM in for Web browsing (so malware infects the Windows VM which gets rolled back every week or so, and doesn't nuke my main computer.) No iOS or Android tablet is ever going to offer that functionality. I dislike any platform where I can't pop up a UNIX command prompt or a PowerShell prompt.
