The desktop/PC market has lost all innovation. I'm not sure why. Things that we take for granted in other form factors: touchscreens, built-in battery backups, seamless bluetooth integration, voice commands -- should be standard by now in desktops. Once they assimilate what's great from other form factors, they can leverage the space on the desk to do things the other ones can't. Things like 3-D, very-large screen formats, wall displays, and gesture recognition.
Instead, somehow the desktop crowd started chasing gamers, creating faster and faster video cards and overclocked processors on the high-end. That was a nice crutch for a few years, but it's not a growth strategy. For the desktop/household PC to grow, it needs to develop into something that it's currently not: an immersive computing experience that's part of your household. That might even include starting to team off with builders to make the PC part of the normal decorative process of designing houses. There's no reason some kind of swappable PC with a wall display couldn't be part of household room designs.
The form factor is dead because the industry has lost the ability to execute on a vision. Instead they're just trying to see how long they can milk the cash cow. Looks like we're now beginning to see an answer to that question.
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The desktop/PC market has lost all innovation. I'm not sure why. Things that we take for granted in other form factors: touchscreens, built-in battery backups, seamless bluetooth integration, voice commands -- should be standard by now in desktops. Once they assimilate what's great from other form factors, they can leverage the space on the desk to do things the other ones can't. Things like 3-D, very-large screen formats, wall displays, and gesture recognition.
Instead, somehow the desktop crowd started chasing gamers, creating faster and faster video cards and overclocked processors on the high-end. That was a nice crutch for a few years, but it's not a growth strategy. For the desktop/household PC to grow, it needs to develop into something that it's currently not: an immersive computing experience that's part of your household. That might even include starting to team off with builders to make the PC part of the normal decorative process of designing houses. There's no reason some kind of swappable PC with a wall display couldn't be part of household room designs.
The form factor is dead because the industry has lost the ability to execute on a vision. Instead they're just trying to see how long they can milk the cash cow. Looks like we're now beginning to see an answer to that question.