Ultrarecall - Help!!!

Posted by Dr Andus
Aug 2, 2013 at 11:08 PM

Chris Murtland wrote:
> However, I assume (hope may be more
>accurate) that eventually these things will converge - either desktop
>software will become much more cloud friendly with multiple native
>clients (along the lines of Evernote) or cloud services will become more
>powerful.

I’m rather worried about the future of desktop software. PC and laptop sales seem to have entered a long-term decline. The hundreds of millions of consumers around the world who didn’t really need a PC but had to buy one because there were no cheap tablets or smartphones or smart TVs around yet have been subsidising the price of hardware, desktop OS and software for the heavy users like the forum members here. This era is quickly coming to an end.

I expect the prices of PCs and laptops to go up over time, as they’ll become specialist instruments, while everyone else will be touching tablet screens or speaking to their portable devices or dumb terminals at work.

I suppose there could be a chance that a smaller but higher-priced market for specialists might benefit some software developers to write expensive high-end software for corporations and specialists. But many might just prefer to write apps for 99c and sell them to millions on mobile device platforms… Depressing…