I love Windows and member of the insiders program. When comes to desktop computing I can imagine not using Windows. However, I find the iPad to be a better mobile solution these days. The iPad is now my main computer that I take with me. I carry a Surface 3 around, but seldom take it out of the bag. The iPad with Microsoft foldable keyboard has proven to be good enough for me. With full photoshop coming to the iPad, do you think the days of PC are numbered? All the apps I love to use are on the iPad and very few are on the PC. If Microsoft gives a full version of Office to the iPad then I don’t see much a future for laptop with Intel and one with ARM would still lack the apps. This app problem is all because Microsoft lost the mobile wars and computer in the pocket dominates first use. Now, HoloLens phone main give them a chance but the odds are against Microsoft pulling that off. They could make it, but making it compelling and what the consumer market will adopt is another matter. It’s not been Microsoft thing. It would need to be a phone and PC at the same time with app support. Can they made it cool enough for app developers will want to jump and consumer will want to use. If they make it just for business then it is another price scanner. Nice tech, useful tech but not for average Joe.
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<p>The days of the PC aren't numbered for most people. There's nothing like using a computer with a big LCD monitor, full keyboard, and regular wired mouse.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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<blockquote><em><a href="#400057">In reply to jchampeau:</a></em></blockquote><p>Aren't you making the same mistake that the original poster is? You are defining mobile productivity as what you do and assuming more people do work like yourself rather than something different. </p><p><br></p><p>I don't know if tablets (iOS base or otherwise) will every overtake the more traditional laptop for productivity or not but they certainly have chipped away at it. I travel a bit for work and I'm not sure if a tablet would allow me to do everything I need to do or not but it has to be pretty close. The issue in my situation is more likely me than the tablet. I have a hard time making the mental shift to using one full time. My kid on the other hand has grown up using a tablet before using a more traditional computer and while he has access to both an iPad and laptop for school his go to for homework is the iPad. The only thing he really uses a computer for is gaming, productivity is all on the iPad. So, I wonder how much of this type of shift is generational vs. technological. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>