On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 12:57 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > What do people buy these days? Phones, tablets, and TVs. Not >> desktop >> > computers. >> >> >> Citation needed. Desktop/notebook computers aren't going to go >> away any time >> soon. >> >> http://www.economist.com/node/21531109 >> with some interesting charts > > Which is actually confirmation of the previous sentence. The > smartphones, tablets and similar devices together are growing much much > faster than desktops and notebooks and are already much bigger market > but they are not replacement for the desktops and notebooks. That depends, in the developed western world probably not, in the developing world most users are just going straight to smartphones and tablets and not bothering with desktops/laptops at all. The reasons for this is low power and price. In those areas desktops are dead and the increase in usage in this markets is 100s of millions of devices are year and for a lot of users it's their only means of accessing the internet and associated information. > Which also supports the idea of having Fedora support both of these > groups of computing devices well. Exactly one of the primary drivers for us to open up the discussion. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
