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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
(Same with desktop usage in general. It's being DWARFED by mobile devices.)
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Most casual home users that in the past bought a PC (or a laptop) now use a tablet. Webmail and browser and apps.
Desktop PC gaming is a niche now with Nintendo, MS Xbox and Sony PS dominating. Casual games on phones and tablets.
The iPhone users more likely buy an iPad. The Android phone users an Android Tablet (as all their apps will migrate for free as well as data).
Business mostly buy laptops. Tower PCs are very niche, outsold by the expensive inflexible All-in-one screens with a sort of laptop motherboard. A real laptop has a built-in UPS and even with a separate 24
" 2K screen can cost less than an all-in-one. Then there are the "mini" Macs and PC, like a cost reduced laptop without screen, keyboard or battery; I think a Raspberry Pi makes more sense than those if you don't need Mac OS or x86-64 Windows (Oddly MS does have an ARM version of Windows for the Pi, but it makes no sense as the entire point of Windows is Corporate x86-64 programs).
Google's Chrome OS and Chrome book is a crippled Linux that can be used standalone but is meant for always on broadband and Google's Cloud. Now MS is bringing out their version of MS Surface/Windows as Cloud Windows HW for Azure. Both those are less good ideas than a real Laptop (Mac, Win1x or Linux – Mint with mate recommended).
Apple will gradually merge MacOS and iOS to have Mac in a Walled Garden now they have moved to ARM (Mac 68000, PowerPC, 32 bit Intel, Intel with 64 bit and then 64 bit only x86-64 Intel Mac OS before the ARM laptop).
MS doing ARM and x86-64 versions of Windows on Tablets was a failure because of legacy x86, legacy x86-64 and unlike Apple they can't force all the Application devs to use ARM and the users to buy new versions of all the Software. Though Rosetta for Power PC to Intel wasn't too bad.