On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 14:46:56 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Sorry, I didn't read the conclusion of that link I gave you: I
just linked it for the large graph showing and forecasting the
number of global smartphone users.
Well, people upgrade their phones and there were a lot of phone
users.
That's like saying current PCs are "mainframes for all
practical purposes, just more constrained in resources," you
honestly believe that too? ;)
And how do they differ?
That doesn't answer my question. :) As for yours, well, for
one, a program written for an AIX POWER mainframe isn't going
to run unmodified on a PC.
All platforms have incompatibilities, it's not an exclusively
mainframe feature.
It's not going to have a desktop UI either.
PC has applications without a desktop UI, e.g. vibe.d.
The former dominant use case for computers, creating content
or getting work done, are a small part of what computers are
bought and used for nowadays.
Yes, if smartphones do that, they will become desktop.
I see, so if I start transcribing a novel by voice to the
on-board computer in my car on the way to work every day, it
becomes a desktop, because I'd have previously written it up in
desktop Word? Just because a device takes on some functions
that you previously did with a desktop doesn't make it a
desktop.
Sounds more like a dictophone than a desktop.
So yes, the desktop UI is a niche, but a moderately large
niche that is about to move to mobile devices also.
Yes, but your claim is that desktop will die, not move.
I was very specific in my claims, at least to Nick above. I
said the desktop/laptop form factors and OSs will die out
Desktop has seen form factors and OSes die, it moved on.
