I'm with you. What we're witnessing here it's the confluence of two different trends. First the push to mobile, as everyone has been pointing out for the last few years (yawn) and secondly the plateau in HW requirements. We've reached a point where our PCs are powerful enough to do everything we need them to, so there's no need to upgrade them (yes, we still need affordable 4k displays). This has happened for two reasons:
1) What were once desktop apps have become online services so as to both reduce shipping time and reach a wider audience (browser improvements obviously are the main force behind this even being possible)
2) Apps that were previously the preserve of powerful desktop computers are now available on mobile phones (who needs that photo-editing software when I can apply a filter to the pic I've just snapped with my phone?)
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I'm with you. What we're witnessing here it's the confluence of two different trends. First the push to mobile, as everyone has been pointing out for the last few years (yawn) and secondly the plateau in HW requirements. We've reached a point where our PCs are powerful enough to do everything we need them to, so there's no need to upgrade them (yes, we still need affordable 4k displays). This has happened for two reasons:
1) What were once desktop apps have become online services so as to both reduce shipping time and reach a wider audience (browser improvements obviously are the main force behind this even being possible)
2) Apps that were previously the preserve of powerful desktop computers are now available on mobile phones (who needs that photo-editing software when I can apply a filter to the pic I've just snapped with my phone?)