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Most of the people who say things like "X market is dying" don't usually know anything about that market, so I rarely pay attention to them.

 They also tend to be people who don't understand that share reduction from market expansion does not mean that one segment is taking over another, but instead that new customers are being added. My niece plays games on her iPhone but would never, ever have been a customer for any PC games, outside perhaps Farmville or such. Last I saw, she was collecting frogs. People like her now count as 'gamers', though they are added customers, not customers lost from the PC category. Some people will never understand the distinction.