A third of PC owners are shifting tasks to mobile devices

[TJGeezer]

"The report notes that 37 percent of consumers that used to access content from a computer have now switched to using tablets and smartphones to accomplish the same tasks. Unsurprisingly, accessing Facebook and surfing the web were named as the two most popular mobile activities in the rapidly approaching post-PC era."
Now I see! Because, obviously, if you use a mobile device to check email while riding in a car pool or on a subway, you'll never prefer to use your PC when you get home or to the office. It's either/or,folks, and Science proves it.

Poor PC makers. Like Dell, pulling in flat profits despite a declining overall market and as a result undervalued by about 30%, as some other article pointed out recently. It's only right, because the PC is doomed - DOOMED, I tell you.

 

[Sarcasm]

No

 

[Guest]

A third of pc owners are shifting to mobile devices? The way I read is a third of pc owners ONLY use their pc for light browsing, reading, and accessing social websites. That kind of activities can easily accomplished by mobile device..

 

[Railman]

Touch screen has its place but in the general office environment it cannot completely replace the keyboard and mouse. One huge advantage of the keyboard is the ability to use it without having to look at it. You can find the keys by touch without accidentally pressing a key.

Quite a few applications are not designed by touch. For example I use two Oraclei based applications which have barely changed over the years. I doubt if touchscreen would work well with Oracle.

Frankly I have been thinking of switching to Linux for my next PC. Why waste money on MS for home use? It looks likely that I will shortly be getting a laptop for work so I still will have access to MS at home.

 

[Shtabaliuk]

Okay look mine scenario just after buying tablet and android-phone last quarter of last year.

I using tablet for reading documents, phone hmm... mine eyes
But so I comfotable at 24"+ monitors at PC or laptop, I even can to type very fast (real fast, not so "aiming game" on tablet or "very hard aiming game" on phone), I can to answer on emails w/o uncomfortable things...

But.. I hasn't Facebook account So I not spending "free" time for it.
This is big difference.

PC will be alive and tablets goes own niche (even goes from overheated state right now to normal market state). People like new gadgets. so booming not uncomon state, but boom has end... always. Then you go to normal average state in market sales.

 

[penn919]

"Only 53 percent of tablet owners use their slates to navigate the web."

Say what? About the only thing tablets are good for is surfing the web. If half of them aren't even doing that, then what the hell are people buying these things for. Angry Birds? What a waste of money.

Probably for the apps. Many apps exists solely to provide better functionality of applications that could otherwise be accessed on the HTML browser. Ex; Facebook, Youtube, Ebay, Google Drive, Gmail, Twitter, Etc.

 

[steve7]

My devices fit together perfectly, some tasks are shared between them of course.

Smartphone: GPS, very good camera, google searches on the go, mobile facebook, couple of fun apps, flashlight.

Computer: Full facebook, powerful for real work like video editing, I can use a real keyboard and write fast, bigger screen, movies are better, no bullshit data plan.

I mean a computer is just way more comfortable to use, especially when you're writing or doing some sort of real task heavy stuff. The best thing about a smartphone is that I can do most the things my computer can do while on the move. It's more difficult, the software has fewer features, but it's helpful when I'm not home.

I agree, I had a few tablets, a high end gaming computer and a simple laptop, Using a computer with 27" monitor, and keyboard and mouse which is much more confortable to use. Granted if there was a tablet that runs Windows 8 Pro NOT RT, I say again not RT, I would gladly use that tablet more than I use my PC, it will also need to have full sized USB ports and an HDMI so that I can connect my full HD monitor and use my peripherals, I really hate using touch, I'll take a huge monitor, K/B & mouse any day of the week over touch monitor or tablet. I know for sure there are people like me, and we will keep the PC market going, as I always upgrade my hardware.