Recent Features
| |||||||||||||
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deploymentLinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deploymentPosted Aug 22, 2011 22:59 UTC (Mon) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)Parent article: LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment
The PC era is over? Ok, smartphone and tablet users... exactly how many of you have gotten rid of your desktop computer and completely replaced it with a smartphone and/or a tablet? That's what I thought.
Smartphones and tablets are ALSO devices rather than replacement devices.
The PC is dead. Long live the PC!
(Log in to post comments)
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment Posted Aug 23, 2011 7:16 UTC (Tue) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
> The PC era is over? Ok, smartphone and tablet users... exactly how many of you have gotten rid of your desktop computer and completely replaced it with a smartphone and/or a tablet? That's what I thought.
I have. I own a NAS, a tablet, a dumb phone, and a notebook. All I ever need. Do look at the sales forecasts, the PC curve will be flat in the most optimistic case.
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment Posted Aug 23, 2011 9:26 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
'A notebook' is a PC.
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment Posted Aug 23, 2011 11:00 UTC (Tue) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
The OP said "desktop computer" specifically
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment Posted Aug 24, 2011 11:56 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
The OP also said "...and completely replaced it with a smartphone and/or a tablet". Replacing a desktop PC with a notebook PC doesn't meet the criterion.
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment Posted Aug 24, 2011 12:52 UTC (Wed) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
You win, I lose. Hope you are happy. :)
That having said, I did buy a bluetooth keyboard for my tablet and plan to not replace my notebook when it dies as I hardly use it.
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment Posted Aug 24, 2011 13:25 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
Hmm, interesting - what tablet device do you use? I am now wondering how to convert a PS/2 keyboard to Bluetooth...
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment Posted Aug 28, 2011 2:38 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] I did buy a bluetooth keyboard for my tablet If you use a tablet with a keyboard, isn't it a PC? To me, the defining characteristic of a PC, as opposed to a tablet or smartphone or any other kind of personal computer is the keyboard and display. I guess a traditional whole-hand mouse helps, too. Likewise, it's hollow to claim one doesn't have a desktop computer if one plugs one's laptop into a docking station and uses a full keyboard and giant display screen.
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment Posted Aug 23, 2011 15:38 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
If by 'notebook' you mean a laptop, you haven't got rid of your PC, you've just gone from desktop to laptop.
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment Posted Aug 23, 2011 7:45 UTC (Tue) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
I haven't had a desktop for years... But there's no way I'll replace my laptop with a tablet. Tablets just aren't made for productive use, they are made to make you spend money or make you read advertisements.
LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment Posted Aug 23, 2011 9:17 UTC (Tue) by sebas (subscriber, #51660) [Link]
I agree that tablets/smartphones won't fully replace PCs, but some use-cases are very well served by tablets, those mostly include media consumption (reading, videos, music) and "light" creation usecases (imagine taking a photo and uploading it, commenting on a blog, microblogging).
So for some use-cases, tablets can (and I think will, as more users purchase tablets) replace the PC, for others, they won't. Now if a user can replace her PC with a tablet depends entirely on wether the use-cases are narrow enough to not need a PC (e.g. no writing of long texts, coding, etc).
I've noticed this myself, since having a tablet, I do prefer this device to catch up on news, or play a game once in a while. For "real work", I definitely prefer a notebook or full workstation PC.
Your question is kind of premature Posted Aug 24, 2011 2:32 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Why do you think people should start with replacing desktop computer (or notebook) with a tablet or smartphone? This is the very last stage of disruptive technology. First you'll get a lot of users who never even touched the PC. There are about 1.5 billion PCs in the world and more then 5 billion mobile phones... which are quickly replaced with smartphones. Yet in reality sales of smartphones have just barely overcome sales of PCs - but they are still growing fast. Next you'll have all the apps ported to smartphones/tables. This stage is starting already but it'll be few more years till you'll be able to actually ditch the PC - and keep all the apps. And then finally users will start abandoning the PC - because it's more-or-less useless for most users at this point. Since we are just switching from stage one to stage two it's no wonder so few people abandoned PC already. But this argument was used many, many, many times in the past (with mainframes, minicomputers, etc) - and every time it was wrong argument to use. But of course not that all these platforms have fully went away - some users are still around... last Multics systems was switched off in 2000!
Your question is kind of premature Posted Aug 25, 2011 3:15 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]
Thank you for saying what I wanted to say so much better (and sooner.)
|
|||||||||||||