Re: Are the days of the desktop numbered?
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My short view: They try to abuse computers to sell them as entertainment devices.
We will be more and more entertained, more dumb in sum, the huge amount of information we get is more and more without quality. They try to move us buy the newest nonsense. A good keyword to start: Obsolescence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolescence It's business.
Never ever can a small device like a mobile phone or even netbook, smartphone, etc be an alternative to my Desktop PC. They are just another toys, for a huge amount of money, to be thrown away in 3 years.
Watch this bulb, already 110 years old, works.
http://www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm#anchor1234
but then, they decided to limit lifetime to 1000 hours. So don't hink they want innovation!!
We once had horse and cart, wrote with feathers, and cooked on fires should we go back to that ?
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