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kitler53 on 01 February 2017

i'm sorry but i think you have it completely backwards.

i am a 0 pc household now.  i used to have one but i just don't need one anymore.

i have a:

 1. smartphone
 2. tablet
 3. console

 

with those i can do gaming, music, photos, tv, email, web browsing.  photos was the last thing that had me keep a pc in the household as i needed a place to store them.  last year i officially moved everything to google photos and all my devices (wife too) are linked to a centralized account.  

these devices are WAAAAAAAY easier to use then a pc to do the things i care about.  

there was a time i needed a pc to manage odd things here and there.  for instance i got my father-in-law a gps.  i needed a PC to download and update maps.  well those things are not supporting PC so much anymore and instead are supporting mobile devices.  

my car interfaces with my iphone but not with a pc.  
my kid's video monitor interfaces with my iphone but not with a pc.
my wife wants to get a nest thermostat.  i don't have one so i guess i don't know if it supports pc but my wife wants it so she can control the heat remotely from her iphone.

 

from my perspective pc is only useful in the productivity space (aka workplace).  i can't see myself ever buying a pc again.



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exclusive_console on 01 February 2017
Mr Puggsly said:
Turkish said:
So you copy pasted what analysts predicted about mobiles becoming the future and replaced Androids and iOS with Windows.

lulz

If anything, Windows is on the way out, mobiles are becoming more and more powerful, they will fully replace desktops and laptops. To prevent that MS is desperately trying to put Windows on mobiles with little success.

In 20 years you will have desktops with Android on it rather than Windows.

I don't see mobile device completely replacing Windows, especially for avid gamers and business environments. Atleast not in 20 years.

I mean given PCs aren't compact devices they will generally be the place for cutting edge specs. There is still plenty of demand for laptops and tablets running Windows. People thought Linux would replace Windows but it hasn't happened, Valve couldn't even make it a relevant gaming platform.

In a nutshell, competing devices have a long way to go to kill WIndows and MS will work to keep Windows relevant. I'll be surprised if Xbox doesn't turn into a Windows device at some point.

Xbox turns into a windows device ? Isn't that called a PC where you can play games and do other task like email, browsing, MS office etc ...

 



 

Mr Puggsly on 02 February 2017
exclusive_console said:
Mr Puggsly said:

I don't see mobile device completely replacing Windows, especially for avid gamers and business environments. Atleast not in 20 years.

I mean given PCs aren't compact devices they will generally be the place for cutting edge specs. There is still plenty of demand for laptops and tablets running Windows. People thought Linux would replace Windows but it hasn't happened, Valve couldn't even make it a relevant gaming platform.

In a nutshell, competing devices have a long way to go to kill WIndows and MS will work to keep Windows relevant. I'll be surprised if Xbox doesn't turn into a Windows device at some point.

Xbox turns into a windows device ? Isn't that called a PC where you can play games and do other task like email, browsing, MS office etc ...

 

It probably sounds dumb, but take into consideration how easy that would make game development for Xbox. If a PC version exist, it could easily be an Xbox game. Vice versa as well. MS could also make it easier to put games on the digital marketplace kinda like Steam.

As long as Xbox feels like a console (console interface) and its relatively cheap, it doesn't matter what's really happening under the hood.



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exclusive_console on 02 February 2017

TBH I am not sure Xbone problem is the OS. DDR3 ram is just slow these days for gaming and 32mb esram used by gpu is probably the problem unlike unified memory like PS4. PS3 problem was also the hardware. SDK, drivers can and were improved but the main problem was complexity in hardware.