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Newsflash: desktops are dead. We are absolute dinosaurs. Most people dont have one. They only use a phone.
Source: mostly every normie I know.
Because desktops are expensive. You people just can't afford them. You need to put at least 1k into the PC then another 200 into the screen, then mouse, keyboard, headset, webcam... They are cheaper off buying a phone.
Young people barely own stuff anymore. Their wealth is historically low as the tech barons, land barons, and so on own everything they want: homes, tech, uni debt, subscriptions, everything. And meanwhile the young are expected to work longer hours for less pay. In certain countries their pay is taxed up to 50%, but a wealthy person doesn't get a salary so they aren't taxed.
Their parents didn't do much better either, but they didn't have it as bad. But it was bad enough that daycare and childcare is fucking expensive, so they shove a phone into the child's face: now the children know phones from a very young age and are also conditioned to buy one asap because it's all they know.
So yeah, I don't blame young people for not owning PCs. Our society has fumbled, is fumbling, and will continue to fumble making it affordable. If we want young people to be more interested in computing beyond telling Claude to write shit for them, we should be worrying about the wealth gap and affordability crisis.
Not completely true. My desktop is 15 years old and ive barely put 400 dollars in it. Used parts. parts from friends throwing stuff. Plays every game I need. Other desktops were from the dumpster or schools throwing them out.
What I mean is, kids dont do that now. Theyre stuck on iPads.
I agree with you still. Its the parents fault completely. The issue is most parents are tech illiterate as well. Downward spiral.
Sucks for them if they have to limit their Internet perspective to a shitty little phone screen. I'd still rather be the cool dinosaur with my gaming desktops with big screens and mechanical keyboards.
My kids love gaming on the desktop computers too - that's the Trojan horse (games) that gave me motivation to learn how to use computers in the first place. Gotta learn how to work the computer to get the games to work.
Yep I feel the same.
However, you can plug that little crappy phone into a DEX hub with a KB/mouse/monitor and play witcher 3 which is cool.
Not my jam though. I like to actually own my hardware, and be able to repair it. Something phones will never do.
A lot of it was due to how awful windows is, folks gave up trying to work around all the bullshit and said a phone is easier.
I totally feel you. Something to be said for our era where it took work to make games work and that gave me a baseline of computing knowledge. Kids today play on browser or hit download on steam and it works. Which is fine. But they get 0 learning from it. Hence why Young's are idiots at computers unless parents teach it outright.
Both cloudflare stats and statcounter show desktops with roughly 46% of the marketshare. This is definitely not dead, definitely not an "absolute dinosaurs" thing.
I wonder why people are like that every time a post like this appears. Too much insecurity, perhaps?
Also, somehow, these days, people tend to act like everything below 50% is absolute zero when it comes to tech
Well:
"Desktop" includes laptops, just to be clear.
I would expect mobile web traffic to be conspicuously low since most use apps instead.
It doesnt break down age statistics.
That would depend on the average age of a desktop owner. If it's all us oldies, I think it still qualifies.
No comment on whether it is true or not, I'm not in touch with trends, just saying that you could maybe find similar rates of ownership of disco records in the 80s, for example, but it was definitely dead as a trend by then...
Well, I have 4 desktops myself. And I assume other nerds have multiple, so that may skew it.
I'm not trying to downplay it but I am just stating that desktops largely dont matter and won't matter in 10 years. Show me a 13 year old using a desktop. There aren't any outside of nerd families.
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