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iOS device sales outpace Windows PC sales for first time


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Win 10 is free because Microsoft botched Win 8 (as well as Windows Phone 7) chasing the wrong kind of customer. PCs have been inefficient for home users for years but it's only in the past 5 years that we have better alternatives. Windows' future was always going to be with business users. But iPhones will never be full replacements for PCs.

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Never. They're too small. The people who never use a PC are those in countries without the money and infrastructure to make widespread PC use practical.

 

iPads have a better shot at it especially if they become more like Windows tablets but if they do, at what point does it cease being a mobile device and start being a PC? What does PC even mean in a world with convertible tablets and keyboard docks?

 

This is an interesting stat and does underscore a shift that had already been taking place but I argue that it only means either that people that didn't need a PC won't need to force themselves to get one, or that the appliance-ification of mobile devices helps to ensure that phones are replaced much quicker than PCs.

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