Originally posted by schmidtbag
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One issue is that we have a whole generation of kids these days that are completely focused on their cell phones. Nobody is buying PC's or tablets to simply communicate with friends.
Second; Intel has really screwed up in not offering the types of performance increases that would drive the power user segment of the market. We have gone more than 3 years with basically flat CPU performance numbers, so there is little incentive for people that need performance to upgrade.
Third; the SoC world sees a lot of systems with ARM hardware built in. A lot of these systems are being sold but aren't classified as PC's. Raspberry PI for example has really taken off and if you judge by magazine space dedicated to the platform seems to have completely replaced PC's for people that lie to tinker, so that is another lost market segment.
So it will be interesting to see what happens to the PC industry in the next year or two. I expect some consolidation and company failures to be honest. The interesting thing here is that Linux is the OS on many of these platforms.
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