famousringo on 10 January 2013
| HappySqurriel said: With the actual nature of the market, I'm not sure this is as significant as people will think ... I have a 5 year old laptop that, other than the $25 battery I had to buy, still works really well for what I use it for and a 18 month old tablet that (after a few OS updates) is now painfully slow to simply browse the web. I have noticed that people are replacing their tablets every 12 to 18 months, while their desktops and laptops are being released every 5+ years; and, while I have seen no studies to demonstrate this, I think this is far more common than people would assume. In other words, simply outselling them doesn't mean that tablets have replaced laptops |
That's just another sign of disruption. PCs have been overserving people's needs since Intel's Core 2, while tablets have been improving rapidly in ways which are meaningful to customers.
Tablets have already destroyed the netbook market. They won't destroy laptops and desktops, but they're going to keep on eroding them until a new form of computing comes along to displace both.
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