Originally Posted by
mikepalma It's done guys. Wishful thinking won't change anything. It's a phone world now, and there are two options. W10M was a miserable failure. MS has a responsibility to make $ for its shareholders, not resuscitate a loser.
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There are slightly more phones than PCs, but people still have and buy PCs (last quarter saw growth, mostly in notebooks, and gaming PCs continue to grow). There are also tablets, and consoles and a variety of forms of computers. These are not direct competitor products, they are complimentary products, people generally own multiple devices in the home. And as technologies they are also tended to change form over time, not remain fixed in form and function forever.
I think if you actually factored in consoles, tablets and PCs you might find that phones make less than half of devices, but typically consoles are not counted. Indeed most OS surveys you hear about are wildly inaccurate due to being based on web browsing studies, not individual devices.
I think you could reasonably say "it's a world that's becoming more mobile", in terms of not just phones, but hybrids, notebooks, and portable gaming devices.
But it's not like stationary computers have suddenly become irrelevant, or stopped selling. They still offer vastly more power and storage, more powerful software development and superior input. That's not going to change long term either - do you think a dinky phone is going to be able to run neural networking machine learning software? Power high end immersive VR? Even if things become more cloud based, somewhere something with more beef is going to be serving it to us.
