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Originally Posted by hobnail
For so many people these days their phone is their computer; desktop computers or laptops are a thing of the past for them.
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Home PC /Laptop sales have more or less collapsed, or at best stagnating. Depends on country.
I expect at some stage the traditional Mac will be gone, replaced by an iPad with keyboard and mouse. MS can't do that because of Corporate applications and their failure with phones, tablets and ARM (yes I know Windows Tablets and MS Surface exists).
Even on unmodified Android 6 you can do real email (K9 mail), image editing (snap seed), Chrome Browser, and text editing with a real keyboard and mouse, or touch (Jota). The Gboard real-time handwriting with a human finger tip to text also works fine on Android 6 in all apps, better than Sage, Elipsa or reMarkable.
However running Linux programs (and windows ones via WINE) on Android is a bit mad. Though I did once run DOS programs and games on Symbian S60 via DOSBOX, and that works on Android too (and entire Win3.0 is possible).
Running CP/M programs on Android might even work better than WINE or DOSBox.