PC industry posts steepest quarterly sales decline in history

[hahahanoobs]

This was expected. Nothing exciting is happening on the desktop, while mobile devices are in the news almost daily with new features, screen size/quality and form factors. You got the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Ubuntu, Mozilla, nVIDIA, Intel, all wanting a piece of the ARM pie, and on the desktop, you got Windows 8 and Mac OSX.

The decline also proves most people can do their computing on a mobile device that is always on, versus a computer that is only available at home, or a laptop with poor battery life. I see mobile devices everywhere and the only place I see laptops are in coffee shops.

Microsoft has to keep busy and following Apple's suit with .1 updates to their OS could very well help. Waiting for the next Windows and Office is few and far between compared to mobile devices releases.

Battery life in general needs to greatly improve also. Who wants to lug around a laptop with 3 hour battery life when you could do the same work on a device you carry with you anyway that has 4x the battery life?

Not me. Nuh uh.

 

[Guest]

The Good Enough era.

• All applications are moving to the web (including office).
• All current and past hardware has now moved to the "good enough" category and do NOT need to be replaced with something faster.
• The hardware replacement desire is now for "portable" instead of "faster".
• Basically, if it can run a browser, it's "good enough".
• Desktop boxes will go the way of the Dodo.

any questions?