It's about time you boofheads had something interesting to read hehe. So I copied this interesting article about why PC sales are declining and mobile devices are on the increase:
Tom Ehrich on Life & Faith
Apr 11, 2013 01:47 pm
Tanking PC sales -- disturbing and encouraging
By Tom Ehrich
Okay, my blog beat is life and faith, not technology. But I still have an opinion on tanking personal computer sales.
The tech blogosphere is alarmed by sagging sales of desktop and laptop computers. Some call it death of the PC.
The common wisdom is that people are switching to tablet computers and smartphones. Some blame lackluster PC hardware offerings by Dell et al. Some blame Microsofts latest iteration of Windows.
I think the problem is much more disturbing and encouraging than that.
On the disturbing side is the question of creating content vs. consuming content.
Some use technology to write articles, essays, on up to dissertations and books. Or to manage spreadsheets, create presentations, manage databases, track customers, write code in other words, to do the work that business, education and the arts require.
That is work for a desktop or laptop. None of that content-creation work can be satisfactorily done on a mobile device. I have tried. Without a cursor or decent keyboard and without an ability to keep several apps open, the iPad makes content-creation frustrating, often nightmarish.
Mobile devices are made for consuming content playing games, watching videos, reading emails, articles and books, checking the weather, and using social media. Oh, and telephone calling.
I use four devices desktop at my office, laptop on the road, tablet on the sofa, and smartphone on the move and each is great.
The disturbing decline, it seems to me, is in content creation. Fewer people are writing, managing data, making the quality of contribution that constitutes creation. Too many are like locusts, feasting on the work of others.
I read the stats on declining PC sales and see less writing, less thinking, less dreaming, less desire to develop ones mind. I see more hunger for fun and games.
On the encouraging side, I think people who do create content are shifting how they work. They use web apps, accessed by a browser, not requiring the latest in PC hardware. They are simplifying how they create content, moving to tools like Draft, a splendid app just for writing, as opposed to the bloatware put out by Microsoft.
How much better could Office or Windows get? The problem isnt Office 2013 or Windows 8; its the upgrade path itself no longer seeming necessary.
On the one hand, we arent educating enough people who yearn to write, think and create. Thats a problem. On the other hand, people are abandoning the upgrade treadmill and extending the useful life of what they own. That sounds wise.
This isnt death of the PC. Its something far more complex and worthy of sustained attention.
Wombat 280 said
01:22 AM Apr 15, 2013
Since I got a laptop for a Christmas present 2years back I haven't fired up my tower unit . Recently I purchased a tablet for Mr's Wombat to bring her into the 21 century and the experience is great they are so easy to convert to and so compact and batteries seem to hold their charge for much longer than my Laptop
It's about time you boofheads had something interesting to read hehe. So I copied this interesting article about why PC sales are declining and mobile devices are on the increase:
Tom Ehrich on Life & Faith
Apr 11, 2013 01:47 pm
Tanking PC sales -- disturbing and encouraging
By Tom Ehrich
Okay, my blog beat is life and faith, not technology. But I still have an opinion on tanking personal computer sales.
The tech blogosphere is alarmed by sagging sales of desktop and laptop computers. Some call it death of the PC.
The common wisdom is that people are switching to tablet computers and smartphones. Some blame lackluster PC hardware offerings by Dell
et al. Some blame Microsofts latest iteration of Windows.
I think the problem is much more disturbing and encouraging than that.
On the disturbing side is the question of creating content vs. consuming content.
Some use technology to write articles, essays, on up to dissertations and books. Or to manage spreadsheets, create presentations, manage
databases, track customers, write code in other words, to do the work that business, education and the arts require.
That is work for a desktop or laptop. None of that content-creation work can be satisfactorily done on a mobile device. I have tried. Without a
cursor or decent keyboard and without an ability to keep several apps open, the iPad makes content-creation frustrating, often nightmarish.
Mobile devices are made for consuming content playing games, watching videos, reading emails, articles and books, checking the weather,
and using social media. Oh, and telephone calling.
I use four devices desktop at my office, laptop on the road, tablet on the sofa, and smartphone on the move and each is great.
The disturbing decline, it seems to me, is in content creation. Fewer people are writing, managing data, making the quality of contribution
that constitutes creation. Too many are like locusts, feasting on the work of others.
I read the stats on declining PC sales and see less writing, less thinking, less dreaming, less desire to develop ones mind. I see more hunger for
fun and games.
On the encouraging side, I think people who do create content are shifting how they work. They use web apps, accessed by a browser, not
requiring the latest in PC hardware. They are simplifying how they create content, moving to tools like Draft, a splendid app just for writing,
as opposed to the bloatware put out by Microsoft.
How much better could Office or Windows get? The problem isnt Office 2013 or Windows 8; its the upgrade path itself no longer seeming
necessary.
On the one hand, we arent educating enough people who yearn to write, think and create. Thats a problem. On the other hand, people are
abandoning the upgrade treadmill and extending the useful life of what they own. That sounds wise.
This isnt death of the PC. Its something far more complex and worthy of sustained attention.