Post PC Era

codejet

It seems to be the trend that popular websites and mobile apps are releasing desktop versions , yet not so long ago word going around was that desktop apps are dead. We are supposed to be in the Post PC era. It seems winforms developers like me are here to stay. The Post PC era talk was just a fantasy.

Nelek

codejet wrote:

The Post PC era talk was just a fantasy

As 90% of the Hype-Buzz-Trends

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OriginalGriff

And don't forget the various incarnations of the Network PC.

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CodeWraith

I have been playing around with stuff from the short period between the old transistor monsters and the c pre PC era lately and could have told you that. They had teletypes and terminals to play with, not browsers, but essentally it was the same game. To someone who knows only how to use a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The irony is that the processor I am playing around with is the granddaddy of all mobile devices. The whole computer draws less power than a few LEDs and can run on batteries for weeks or even months. And that was even before mobile devices looked like this[^].

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

codejet

The Osborne 1 looks pretty cool

CodeWraith

Only if you are a bodybuilder, as heavy as that thing was. And it was not battery powered with the CRT and the floppy drives. You still had to plug it into some wall. I like this one here much more: Sandy Robson's 1802 Handheld | COSMAC ELF[^]. That's what people built at home at the same time.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

den2k88

They filled their niche in a time when notebooks were both bulky and expensive - I ame one of the first italian users of the original EeePC and I can positively say that it made my graduation possible. Dumb parents told me there were no money for a notebook yet they expended 3 times the price to change sofa, which was an horrid 5 years old and in perfect conditions. I had just the price of the netbook in cash (parents forbade me to work while studying and never given any allowance, yes I made those money as best as I could escaping their iron grip) and I had no Internet at home, so for me it was a necessity. It worked as a horse for 4 years, was portable and lightweight and allowed me to know when exam dates had been moved.

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dandy72

codejet wrote:

It seems to be the trend that popular websites and mobile apps are releasing desktop versions

I must've missed that trend. The closest thing I've seen that you're describing is apps (mobile apps) that are simply dumb wrappers around a web site, so just they can get a dedicated icon on your phone. And then spy on it, but that's another matter entirely. What "popular web site" have you seen a desktop version of?

BillWoodruff

In the sense the planet is now infested with mobile devices (many more powerful than the desktops of yesteryear), and the growing ubiquity of internet-of-things devices you "consume," rather than interact with directly ... I'd say we're definitely in a post-pc era. But, the mammoths (mainframes/servers) are not gone. The "killer apps" seem to have stabilized around browser, spreadsheet, word/document processing, and "gaming" is an even more major driver of hardware innovation and sales. I recently made the mistake of installing Grab's Windows app: it required a JavaScript/Browser shell from some gaming company (BlueStacks): unusable, broken. In that case, I'd say the company did not see a native Win desktop app as a priority, given their business model.

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