Your kids, unlike some people on this thread, will likely know the difference between a form factor and a software ecosystem. PC is not a form factor.I'm pretty sure my kids (under 2) will not know what a laptop or "PC" is.
People have been saying the PC is dead since the day the first PC was sold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlOwJp3HmZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZoiVGLtnbI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKcaVdyqImg
Getting a little worried about Dell, HP, IBM & Intel's latest PC campaigns
Your kids, unlike some people on this thread, will likely know the difference between a form factor and a software ecosystem. PC is not a form factor.
For me "a full desktop experience" means the ability to customize my PC as much as possible. Dumbing down customization to a single USB 3.0 port is what you have these days, lmao. These toys were never meant to replace the actual Desktop PCs. I am sure Tim spoke of a different audience. For those, yeah... Desktop PC is dead.Ok, but the iPad Pro doesn't offer a full desktop experience, unlike the Surface Pro line.
What I am always laughing about is when I hear people trying to pidgeonhole PCs as somehow "desktop". PC just stands for personal computer. It's form factor agnostic. Desktop, laptop, yes even tablet or smartphones are all PCs in a sense.
Not surprising hearing this from Apple though as their desktops are underpowered overpriced garbage. They don't have much respect for the desktop if they can't cram it into some sort of ridiculous looking wastebin form factor I guess
That old Core 2 duo system has been going strong because it wasn't pinned down by the Google/Android software prison. The idea of upgrading every 8 years rather than every 2 is appealing to some folks.
It's reasons like this that will keep many people using desktops, even if they don't need the performance side of things. Of course, this example doesn't apply to everyone. But at the same time my father is hardly an ethusiast either. This is why I don't think desktops are dead yet.
And yet, unfortunately, Microsoft is doing their best to do away with that possibility, with forced upgrades to an OS, with forced updates, that may "morph" every few months into something else entirely, whatever is MS's whim that quarter.
Apples and oranges. Let's not try to equate mobile hardware planned obsolescence with operating system updates and patches.
So either they are going to stop making Macbooks, iMacs and Mac Pros or he's full of shit.
"To protect people who use any products, you have to encrypt. You can just look around and see all the data breaches that are going on. These things are becoming more frequent. They can not only result in privacy breaches but also security issues. We believe very strongly in end to end encryption and no back doors," Cook warns. “We don’t think people want us to read their messages. We don’t feel we have the right to read their emails.”
“Any backdoor is a backdoor for everyone. Everybody wants to crack down on terrorists. Everybody wants to be secure. The question is how. Opening a backdoor can have very dire consequences.”
The Apple boss doesn’t believe that it is possible or sensible for a country to go it alone; technology and systems have become too globalised. “We are all connected, whether we like it or not”.
It would also be wrong to pick on a few big players, he says. “It’s not the case that encryption is a rare thing that only two or three rich companies own and you can regulate them in some way. Encryption is widely available. It may make someone feel good for a moment but it’s not really of benefit. If you halt or weaken encryption, the people that you hurt are not the folks that want to do bad things. It’s the good people. The other people know where to go.”
Data and identity theft has a very real human cost, he argues. By jeopardising “people’s financial security, it can affect their psychology and health.” Worse, cybercriminals and cyberterrorists could hack into the IT systems that control our infrastructure and transport systems, with potentially devastating effects, “including our trains.”
He is confident that May and the government will do the right thing. “I’m optimistic. When the public gets engaged, the press gets engaged deeply, it will become clear to people what needs to occur. You can't weaken cryptography. You need to strengthen it. You need to stay ahead of the folks that want to break it.”
until then, i got a 12.9 inch device he can use...
So either they are going to stop making Macbooks, iMacs and Mac Pros or he's full of shit.
Also, how do I install a GTX 980 in the iPad Pro?
Misleading thread title. Knee-jerk idiots.
I think if youre looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why would you buy one?
Even that's doing better on mobile.
WTH?! I copied/pasted the title of article within the space permitted. And the quoted portion of the article directly relates to the title of this thread.
If you don't need a full-blown PC, don't buy an expensive iPad. Buy a Chromebook. Way less money and has a keyboard.