Re: Market Saturation
People won't be replacing PC's because they don't have them. They have internet browsers and e-mail readers and movie streamers. We think of those things as PC's but they don't. Some even call their PC "The Internet". So when that box goes pfftz they're going to buy a different but cheaper Internet, maybe what we would call a phablet.
Selling people PC's was a giant con, a way of making PC's cheaper by broadening the market to people who normally wouldn't think of touching a "computer". Even in cubicle land the all-purpose PC is being replaced by virtualized machines that, for the moment, happen to be accessed from PC's, but soon won't. I hated the idea of "thin clients" back in the day, but now they are the main defense against what bozos can do to the networks we all depend on.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
