Advice Request Do you think that Desktop PC's will cease to exist, due to smartphones?

[Nevi]

When you look at people in the streets, or actually everywhere, they go with the head down in the smartphone. How many likes did I get at Instagram, or FB? When I am out I never use my phone. It's only to if people call me.

 

[Viking]

Like wise!

 

[jprivett]

Smartphones are fun, but they are limited, purely due to their form factor.
If the GPU and CPU OEMs are having a hard time producing powerhouse chipsets (16 cores @ 7nm) to perform production, compiling, and run-time tasks in the developer world, then smartphones are way out-classed. As far as gaming goes, console games would choke most phones, and then you have the RT (ray-tracing) games and media content and all their glorious eye-candy, sheesh...RIP tile-based deferred rendering.

No matter if we are discussing software or hardware, I always say use the right tool or set of tools to accomplish the task.
And as someone else previously stated in this thread--smartphones, laptops, desktops, and tablets all complement each other and each performs a certain necessary need.

• ie. I would not want to perform studio-grade video production and editing on my phone or tablet...gorilla style production sure.
  • Even when I use a drone or a high-end camera (for work or play) those files would be a PITA to edit on a phone...dropping or cleaning up audio that I or my clients don't want in the video would be a daunting task. I would hate trying to use a spectral analyzer or parametric equalizer to scrub audio files.
• Coding/scripting/programming on a phone is ok, but not when it comes to multiple class files and thousands of lines of text I reach for a 13" laptop at the least.
• I perform minor updates to servers that I maintain from my phone but I'd rather do the heavy lifting from a desktop or laptop.
• There are certain tasks for wireframing and even intermediate graphics creation or editing that I will start from my phone or tablet, but will finish up on my desktop or laptop.
  • Depending on the situation I will use what I have readily available if it is a crunch situation. I have been known to walk into an Apple Store create work on one of their desktops and SFTP the file(s) via terminal out to my client or a content aggregator/CDN/server.

But what do I know, this is just my 2cents amigos.

-jprivett

 

[notabot]

I don't know if it will be due smartphones or due to a combination of smart devices and SaaS services but ultimately yes I think Desktops will have the same fate as dinosaurs.
Personally I hope they'll stick around as I'm too used to having a "PC" and don't like using a smartphone nor a tablet, plus I prefer running the software on my drive with the data staying on my drive, SaaS in a sense is like "dumb terminals strike back"

 

[bribon77]

And so it is that smartphones take the market for desktop computers. The big winner would be Google because it owns Android, and the big loser would be M $.

 

[blacksheep]

Mobile will never catch up with PC due the size. That's it.