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mitzevo:
The Myth of the ‘Post-PC Era’: Why tablets and smartphones will never replace the PC  :Thmbsup:

What are your guys&gals take on Smartphones and tablets replacing PCs? I agree with the linked article above, that PC/Laptops will remain superior for "high-end" jobs such as graphics design, 3d modeling, software development, coding, "proper" gaming, etc. The average PC user (facebookr, chatting/iming, etc.) will not have a need for such "high-end" things and will be happy with smaller devices, more limited devices.  ;D

Ok sure, some devices you can root/jailbreak and you have more control, but still, can't beat a rig/computer with full decent size screen, horse power, nice keyboard for blazing input, mouse for design, gaming, etc.

Are smart phones, outsmarting PCs?

Renegade:
The major problem is the interface.

mitzevo:
Don't you mean the lack of interface?  :-[

mahesh2k:
Watching movies and playing games isnt good with tablets. And by games i mean something like horror game or where you feel the game.

Paul Keith:
No, there's an interface alright. Pre-Swype the Swype interface was a circle which was both better and much more intuitive but as with most things innovative, it was ugly and even the circular-like swype keyboards today are not well received though they are of inferior and cluttery designs. Still the paradigm have shifted towards a Swype rather than a Touch interface which is both a paradigm shift for the PC and for the smartphone. Other minor examples of this paradigm is how people use pinch zooming to zoom documents or how stores will change the culture of where and how casuals search for software.

Vibration-wise, there's been work on touch interfaces that are speed/friction sensitive. Just a youtube of touch screen shows this: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=touch+screen+innovation&oq=touch+screen+innovation&gs_l=youtube.3..33i21.594.3907.0.4304.23.16.0.1.1.0.421.2889.4j5j2j3j1.15.0...0.0...1ac.1.V6nqTMs6v3E

Then as far as digital art, there's less power but:

For me, the most interesting of his current recommendations is the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for annotating and editing pdfs - so much easier with long-form writing for the writer to be as close as possible to paper-free. The Galaxy Note 10.1 still remains (I think) the only pure iPad-style tablet with a digitiser under the screen, although Adonit are trying to achieve the same effect with the Jot Touch for the iPad, and I’ve heard that more (less expensive) tablets with digitisers (and probably Windows 8) will be launched in the New Year.-Hugh
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Source: http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4627/5

and...

http://youtu.be/Ueyiw6gv04U

Source: http://evernote.com/getting_started/moleskine/#0

The key difference I think between smartphones and all the other previous gadgets are that smartphones have the potential to make slaves out of everyone so that's what's going to drive it compared to the previous techs that were intrusive but were always going to be points of power.

For example, the remote control is not the television but the remote controlled television replaced television because it was a good way to charge extra/keep the "interface innovations" of a TV set improving which justify raising costs/etc. etc.

The tablet market is very much a remote control market slash wireless desktop interface. You rip the desktop interface and the PC falls apart for most users. The ignorance between the two things is not a myth, it's the natural pathway for the personal computer since the dawn of it's birth.

The remote control couldn't kill the television because they had the same method of input. Smartphones can outsmart PCs because they don't have the same input so by killing say wireless mouse, even if Smartphones don't kill the PC, it will kill it by virtue of adding another "operating system"-like filter requirement to PCs that the desktop OS was slowly not requiring so maybe smartphones won't kill the old existence of PCs just like old BBS computers still exist but the next generation and the next generation of people being born would slowly lose interest in PCs which is just as good as replacing it. If the Linux Operating System is just for sys admins then it doesn't matter if it's free and passable as a desktop OS, it's not the PC that people understand. In the future (the far far future), if the PC doesn't have a tablet with it then it's not the PC that people understand. If it's not the PC that people understand, there would be less software made for it or to pirate a new software, you can't use it fully featured without having an un-warez acquired smartphone that you have to jailbreak. In turn, like how even warez account today who often got things for free due to torrent software, many are still sourcing from UseNet. If there's an annotation or a highlight or a OCR or a Smartphone Interface for the new generation of Facebook Image Sharing...those send powerful PCs to the counter. Those turn the PC into a printer or a scanner.

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