Re:Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
by shortrounddev2 on Friday June 20, 2025 @02:17PM
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Smartphones replaced laptops. A huge amount of people don't own a laptop or desktop PC - they do all computing via smartphone or maybe tablet. My wife almost never opens her laptop, nor does my mom
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Global PC shipments haven’t decreased over the last 20 years. It’s more like smartphones have expanded the number of people who do computing.
But people still do buy some laptops.
It is hard to say when the peak of laptops in circulation was, right? Because simultaneously the tech has been maturing (longer product lifetimes) and smartphones have taken some laptop niches.
I’m not even clear on what we’re measuring when we say “replace.” Every non-technical person I know has a laptop, but uses it on maybe a weekly basis (instead of daily, for smartphones).
Re:Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
by shortrounddev2 on Friday June 20, 2025 @03:29PM
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I don't know any non-technical people who own laptops, personally. Other than work laptops
Sure but lots of people use work laptops as general laptops. Which is why we keep having to advise people not to do that.
Re:Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
by bigfatkitten on Saturday June 21, 2025 @12:32AM
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Millions of smartphone users never owned a laptop (or even a desktop computer) to start with. Smartphones are their only real exposure to computing.