Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results, Slowing Growt...
by IkmoIkmo on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @06:09PM
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> Phones, surprisingly, seem to be continuing to eat away at the desktop use cases
It's only surprising if we look at smartphones as phones... really they're just PCs, personal computers, the most portable version.
All other computing is either enterprise computers (in my experience, veeeery low-frequency, low-value business. Most people in offices are on computers with $150 of hardware that's years old and more than good enough for internet, email, office and basic database/administrative packages) and gaming (mostly separated into a console industry).
What's left really are students and some professionals who work from home. But I've got plenty of working friends who simply don't use computers anymore at home.
It's only surprising if we look at smartphones as phones... really they're just PCs, personal computers, the most portable version.
All other computing is either enterprise computers (in my experience, veeeery low-frequency, low-value business. Most people in offices are on computers with $150 of hardware that's years old and more than good enough for internet, email, office and basic database/administrative packages) and gaming (mostly separated into a console industry).
What's left really are students and some professionals who work from home. But I've got plenty of working friends who simply don't use computers anymore at home.