The World had spoken, pc and x64 GTFO, welcome arm and android

>>57469305
In case nobody suggested you today to kill yourself, I'll be the first.

>>57469305
>PC market is saturated with "good enough" devices from the past half decade
>Phones require replacements every two years and is still a relatively new market
>Hurr durr PCs are dead
No, they're not. It doesn't help that phones are still incredibly weak with regards to computational abilities.

>>57469392

This.

Just look at all the people on /g/ happily using Core2duo Thinkpads. Decade old machines are still perfectly suitable for daily tasks.

The rampant consumerism on phones will die down too now that a 2 year old phone will still do everything you expect a smartphone to do without being a piece of shit.

>>57469495
>The rampant consumerism on phones will die down too now
It probably won't. Quick charge technologies will kill the batteries within two years and constant software "upgrades" will slow everything right down, whereas Microsoft has actually been making a conscious effort to make windows lighter with every generation because they want the tablet market.

>>57469305
Yes. Pump out billions of shitty processors that get tossed in the bin within 12 months half the time.

>>57469495
This is a good prediction imo. Phones have now reached a level where you are not begging for a new phone every single year because yours has slowed to a crawl. Rather, its just more for the shiny new additions, just like laptops.
Seriously, how can you complain when your phone has 4gb+ of fucking ram, ludicrous flash memory speeds and greatly overpowered processors for the tasks they are supposes to handle.

One issue is as >>57469533 says: batteries.
They are seemingly shit and have far to go. This fucking pumping 25W into your phone so you can hurry up and go meet your friends because you're too retarded to charge your phone in a conventional cycle is getting long in the tooth. No way such charging is doing batteries any good, although sony has tried to address peoples bad habits with fast charging using Qnovo or whatever it is.
Still, batteries, lack of expandable or replacement parts and peoples desire for new shiny things will keep the smartphone market as it is.
Desktops are more flexible, its obvious less people buy a full tower every year. And those who do care will clean their pc and make the most of it because not many do more than text editing and powerpoints.

>>57469533
>conscious effort to make windows lighter
and failing miserably

>>57470532
don't even try to use 8.1/windows 10 on chery trail tablet. I bought one for 100usd and it's fucking unusable

>>57469305
>x64

>>57470561
Try using windows 7 on the same device. Microsoft have actually made progress.
>>57470532
I said lightER, not light. Windows will never be light but windows 8 and beyond have been steps in the right direction compared to the previous trends.

>>57470987
>suggesting that it is faster then XP

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>>57471039
Probably is in quite a few metrics, yes. The way windows handles basic display tasks has changed quite a bit since then, among other things. Remember pic related? No longer possible.

There's also the usual collection of prefetch improvements, an OS that actually knows how to handle flash storage and so on and so forth.