Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere

Re:Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere by cwyers on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @07:27PM (#9965229)

Phones and tablets may some day supplant the PC as the primary devices for consumption. But PCs are certainly not going to be replaced as the primary devices for creation. Moreover, almost every app you use on a phone or tablet and every web page you view is powered by a server on the other end, and those servers are going to be PCs for the foreseeable future. Phones don't replace PCs, phones create demand for servers that PCs can and will fulfill.

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Re:Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere by tsunamifury on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @07:38PM (#9965292)

Phones have already supplanted pcs in many forms of creation, photography, messaging, data gathering, gps, and many many more.

The phone is now a primary photo editor for the majority of users. It's where I'm authoring this comment right now.

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Re:Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere by loco5niner on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @08:22PM (#9965528)

Editing pictures for facebook and creating comments in a forum are are not particularly "forms of creation". Photoshopping a magazine cover and building a website are.

As for photography, messaging, and gps. Well, of course. Those are a natural use for that form factor. I'm not going to take my laptop out to take a picture... (I'm kind of surprised you didn't mention that the phone is better for making phone calls too).

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Re:Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere by toborrobot on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @01:03AM (#9966311)

Nobody would take their laptop out to take a picture, but plenty of people use Skype on a laptop.

Maybe it's a quirk of history that modern phones are named after the telephone; most phone usage involves reading text, not speaking or listening.

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Re:Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere by loco5niner on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @12:35PM (#9969773)

And both of those uses are examples of consumption, not creation.

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Re:Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @08:24PM (#9965540)

Sure. For a comment the size of a tweet, that's fine. I bet you're not writing long-form content on your phone, though. Or doing serious code development.

For some content creation, there's nothing that can replace a real keyboard and a real (large) screen.

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