On Mar 22, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 14:55 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Mar 22, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> >>> The mitigating factors are: >>> >>> a) the desktop market could be considered unlikely to literally _die_. >>> What may happen instead is it could become much more of a niche - in >>> fact, very similar to what it was in the 1980s and early 1990s. There >>> could always be a small amount of people who actually need or want a >>> desktop computer, and these people could be rather close to the >>> self-same ones they were in the 1980s and 1990s: people whose use cases >>> intrinsically depend on large screens, keyboards, and significant whacks >>> of power. >> >> I use Photoshop, Lightroom, work on multi-gigabyte image files, as do >> my customers. I intrinsically depend on a large screen, a keyboard, >> and occasional whacks of power. I haven't owned a desktop computer in >> 6 years. >> >> The desktop form factor will die eventually, although the "desktop >> user" need will remain. Whether the need will be met with more >> powerful tablets and shared resources, or more efficient form factors >> that aren't so ugly, power hungry, and space inefficient - or a >> combination. We'll have to see. It depends on how much and how fast >> that market shrinks, but it will shrink. >> >> I get along just fine without a literal desktop computer, have for 6 >> years with just laptops/ I will eventually ditch the laptop also. Just >> a matter of time. I do own an old smart phone. I do not own a tablet >> or pad. >> >> And I'm not unique. > > Anecdotal data is great, but it's just anecdotal. I am merely refusing the premise that those who "intrinsically depend on large screens, keyboards, and significant whacks" need a desktop. Or that it's a recent phenomenon. And I'm intimating that there is no good reason the trend will end at the laptop. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
