Among my non tech friends? 80% don't have a computer anymore and solely uses their phone or maybe have an iPad.

I don't know the age range, but everyone over 40 I know has a computer, so does everyone in and a couple years out of college I know (my age group).

The only people I know who dont have computers are my friends working heavily blue collar jobs. Even most of them have laptop's, only a few don't have anything.

I'm in my late 30s.

Couple years outta college? People are still using the PC they bought for college probably. I don't know a whole ton of people who went to college anyways.

Agree with this. I live in Australia and work in the building industry. Most of the apprentices and tradesmen I work with, and their tradie friends, don't own computers at home. They'll have a TV, a smartphone, and a maybe games console.

I was absolutely amazed when this no-home-PC thing started catching on, because I just can't image, say, booking a flight on a smartphone. But there is a large cohort that a phone is good enough. We are the minority. I will always have a desktop at home.

The company I work for recently (~3 months ago) offered to send our payslips via email, I think I'm the only person on the workshop floor who has this, everyone else still receives theirs as paper copy.

Using a smartphone to do anything other than send short messages and read the web frustrates me to buggery, but for those people who find using a computer frustrating or tedious anyway a smartphone mustn't be much different or even probably a better user experience.

Funny thing about email. Chatted with some 18year old recently. She said she'd get pissed of if she had to check her email now. She probably wouldn't know how.

It's all social media/chat apps for them now.

"to buggery" may not translate so well outside the antipodes :)

Works perfectly fine here in the UK

I have a laptop for programming but otherwise I do pretty much everything else either on my phone or occasionally my iPad. The phone has the advantage of always being in my pocket so as soon as I think of something I can take out my phone and do it, without having to wait to get back to my laptop.

Booking flights is easy, I use Kayak.

I have a phone for when I don't have any option but to do something when I'm out, and to get notifications of e-mail (plus sms, voice, etc). I love that it's possible to use it for so many things, but I hate actually doing anything meaningful on it. Even on something like a 10" tablet, I feel like I'm limited by the small size and the input options. I usually pull the phone out of my pocket, think about doing something with it, make the decision that whatever needs done can wait, and put it away.

> booking a flight on a smartphone

Hipmunk?

Well for me part of booking a flight is choosing which airport to leave from. The last 4 flights i took left from 4 different airports. There's also choosing a day to leave and come back which requires a few searches. I like to open several tabs and flip back and forth quickly to compare flights. I like having a screen where I can see more than a couple flights at a time. Having a keyboard and mouse makes all the difference in the world too.

Home computers? Almost nobody. Just those who work from home.

And those who have, no upgrades, but shining new cell phones and tablets.

Or perhaps the market was first ally saturated, and what we see now is the normal upgrade cycle sans people buying their first computer.

> How many people do you know...

That's not how it works.