Smartphones Replacing PCs
The cluster debates whether smartphones and mobile devices are overtaking or replacing traditional PCs and laptops as primary computing devices for everyday tasks like banking, social media, and entertainment, especially for billions without access to desktops.
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I don't think it is, just think about all the people (billions) which either can't afford a desktop or laptop, or can't connect one in their home. Now they are connected to the entire world, their families and communities through smartphones. And that cost of entry does keep getting lower. Perhaps it is transitional? Until something better comes along (AR/VR)? Then a smart phone is just a mobile computing device that generates/renders the virtual world around you (while
If mobile devices "would overtake PCs" then why does everyone still have a PC?
People have changed habits: most people do not use a PC for their everyday computing. They use a smartphone, and at a stretch, a tablet. There are a sizable number of people, not weirdos who don’t use tech but the average person who does banking and gaming and books flights and checks instagram, who has never used a desktop or laptop outside of an office. It’s all mobile devices. It’s Apple and Android.
Until phones get to replace laptops and desktops, it doesn't matter much.
Why just smartphones? Why not all computers?
There are more mobile phones alone than PCs, and phones are computers with screens.
Reminds me of desktop computers vs. smartphones. Laptops may soon be a luxury/tool for techies that most people just don't need.
the smartphone is the computer. at $1000 many consumers use it for all of their daily needs, many of which ironically have nothing to do with phonecalls.
Lots of people don't own laptops or desktops. They do all computing through a smartphone.
Phones as desktops is the future.