Google Says Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in 3 Years

[Adroid]

[citation][nom]shubham1401[/nom]Does your Cellphone runs Crysis?[/citation]
More importantly, does your cell phone run crysis 2 on a 27" monitor

 

[gomi]

In Japan that may be the case since Japanese use their phones for everything but that can't be true for the rest of the world.

 

[rdagevos]

If network latency and bandwidth get a lot cheaper, yeah I might be able to give it the benefit of the doubt, but so many people in the world that still rely on adsl... not going to change in 3 years time...

 

[exceeda88]

what is your phone vantage score??

 

[geofry]

Watching porn and looking up the address for the local Starbucks is not exactly what I would actually call research.

The only desktop that will be irrevalent in 3 years is the one I currently own as I will have replaced it with another one that much better. I'm currently feeling constrained with my single 24" monitors (the other is broken atm) I can't see how I would ever be satisfied with a 3-12" monitor, hand held or not.

Until smart phones get alot closer to commodity status, have a screen that I can read with my old eyes and have a power source that only needs to be charged up at most a couple times of week with steady use, and don't weigh more than a paper notebook of equivalent size I doubt I'll ever have much interest in them.

I find the current crop of phones to be over priced and under powered toys at best. They serve their nich markets well, that doesn't include me though.

 

[rantoc]

I thought Google could afford the good shit, seems they been smoking too much bad shit!

 

[Guest]

Yes.. because the world love staring at postage stamp size screens all day.

 

[Guest]

has anyone considered what google meant by high performance mobile phone? google must have figured out that high performance cell phones generally cost more than a mainstream computer. hats off to you google. indeed, most of my research is done on my (loathsome) iphone. if they can get top of the line pc performance out of a smartphone, i would gladly take it any day. imagine playing crysis 2 using your phone's accelerometer... think of the possibilities!

 

[pogsnet]

Google will be irrelevant in 3-5 years

 

[jimmy008]

There was this one guy, a long time ago, that said computers will never need more than 640k of memory. That was statement was almost as stupid as google's.

 

[fiskfisk33]

no

 

[Guest]

who wants to look at a 3 inch 640x480 screen to browse the web?
yeah if you are not near a desktop or laptop but desktop irrelevant?
maybe if you have never learned how to use a computer. but seriously what are these jokers smoking with all this cloud computing. Why would i want to put my private information on a server with everyone else? Why would I want to create a document on my phone when i have a desktop that has a much nicer screen, a bigger keyboard, and the best invention ever a mouse! Plus i don't see phones being able to run amazing windows apps like EJukebox anytime soon.

 

[Lantzvillian]

Have some of you forgotten how much dark fiber Google bought during the dot com era? They have ALOT and they also have the money/infrastructure to become an ISP... which was a recent headline not too long ago.

 

[jsm6746]

come on tom's... controversial headlines such as this have only one thing in mind... page views... while you fully deserve your paychecks, putting up a little image saying 'if you

 

[Guest]

this makes me angry. they decide on their own to change everything, without ask us anything.

 

[Stickywulf]

Was this the same guy who predicted roads would be irrelevant by the year 2000 since we'd all be driving flying cars.

 

[lornj]

maybe this guy is right. isnt the world ending in 2012? so desktops will be done in 3 years.

 

[Guest]

Historically, desktops have been a niche market in Japan.

Going by this logic, I predict that in three years, Starbucks will suffer a serious blow when everyone starts their day drinking tea and miso soup.

 

[yuhsaku]

Let's get back to this forum in three years and see if this happened.

 

[FLGibsonJr]

I am actually using my desktop PC more and more over time. I am getting larger and more powerful monitors, larger and more powerful video cards, larger and more powerful power supplies, etc. etc. etc. And I am using my desktop for more and more various things from photo collections, to PC gaming, to watching movies and shows and youtube, to listening to music, to research all sorts of topics, etc. etc etc. and I am using things like my television and radio less and less. Devices like smart phones and laptops, though very helpful, are actually sacrifices made for mobility, why would I want to use them when mobility is not an issue. One thing I would like is for my smart phone and my laptop to access information from my home PC desktop more seamlessly.

Regards,

 

[JohnnyLucky]

It seems the folks at Apple were not thinking about mainstream professional and scientific applications. A smartphones, small portable pc with a tiny displays, and touchscreens simply will not do.

 

[climber]

IT managers and departments love this idea, as it gives them ever more credence to the notion that individual users don't need powerful desktops or desktop replacement laptops. They'd rather you have a keyboard, mouse and monitor plugged directly into the ethernet port in your cubicle and everything run from the server. They want all the money relegated to tech for themselves and the users needs be damned. It's also about power and control. The notion of only having a monitor keyboard and mouse for the user is a great one for IT in another way, corporate network security. The problem is that the vast majority of CAD, CAM, Engineering, GIS, Statistical, Graphic Design applications don't run directly from the server with no desktop installtion and if they do they give the user no real ability to do anything "outside the box" to do creative problem solving or analytical work as everything is locked down. With each passing tech generation (5-1 year window), the user gets the shaft more and more, while providing apparent freedom of choice. It's kind of like the fact that you have hundreds of types of cereal at the grocery store, made by a couple big conglomerates.

 

[shabitz74]

http://games.venturebeat.com/2010/01/06/cloud-streaming-game-service-gaikai-raise-5m/

With this type of technology coming Google may be on to something. No more need to ever install a game or patch it. Can play the best of games off a netbook, crazy concepts. It's like Remote deskotp on steroids!

 

[Painmaker]

So NASA will be using cellphones to write space programs. And the military and world governments are bound to replace those big ol' desktops with tiny mobile phones any time now. Oh, and I'm absolutely sure you will make OSs for those smartphones on other smartphones.

 

[seriousazn]

until we have those precise pop up holographic screens...desktops will still be here