On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 03:15:04 UTC, solidstate1991
wrote:
After all this flaming about Windows, mobile devices (I
personally prefer my desktop PC thanks to its "power", or at
least what it used to left, thanks to long unemployment time
and lack of income, have a Nokia Lumia which I cannot upgrade
to W10 due to BS reasons, and I think open-source architectures
will kill off the proprietary ARM and x86 in the long run, not
the mobile platform the desktops/laptops(funny story is that my
mother tried to ditch desktop multiple times for the mobile,
then got back, same happened with one of my cousin after he
realized that pay-to-win games suck)), can we get back on
rails? While its true that Windows and desktop is losing its
place, we need to support Windows on a much higher level as
long as there's a large number of PCs out there. Game
development would highly benefit from D thanks to its
all-in-one approach, probably could cut a few millions off from
AAA game development. Also audio-engineers are switching to
Windows, thanks to Apple scrapping the IO on their products
(I'm also a digital artist, have to stay with Windows due to
drivers, software, and ease of use).
I just saw this post about the upcoming Lenovo/AT&T Moto Tab and
thought of you:
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Lenovo-Moto-Tab-ATT-features_id99782
For $300, you can buy a tablet that lets you do everything you
normally do on a tablet, plus watch TV on the go. If you want to
use it for work, you buy the bluetooth accessories shown in that
embedded promo youtube video and you can do that too. Want a
screen in your kitchen, to control that optional speaker, watch
recipe videos while you cook, and do video calls? That's a
fairly new use case you can try out too.
So for $300 or a bit more, depending on what accessories you get,
you replace your laptop and TV, and have completely new things
you can do. While this effort is fairly ambitious- having
watched movies on my tablet with family members, similar to how
the family in the video does, I can attest that your arms get
tired holding the tablet out front like they do- seems to me that
mobile convergence is only increasing.
As for your mom and cousin going back to PCs, let me tell you
about my own mom. Five years ago, we were both using Windows
laptops: her chunky laptop for her business, my Win7 ultrabook
for coding and recreation. Today, we both use Android tablets
for these same uses- we're both on our second Android tablet now-
plus she'll actually use her tablet at home now because a 10"
tablet is nowhere as bulky as a Windows laptop.
She never typed much in her business use, mostly reading emails
and other viewing, so the laptop keyboard was always superfluous,
but she had to have one because almost nobody was selling tablets
a decade ago when she got it. Whereas, I paired a bluetooth
keyboard with my tablet and get by just fine with that.
The sales data I've linked shows that there are a lot more people
like us than those you point out, and my point is that the mobile
market is encroaching even on to people like your family, with
products like that Moto Tab.
btw, if you want to get back on-topic, simply change the topic of
your post up top and write a post about the original topic,
rather than posting in an OT thread about what we're talking
about.
