Windows worldwide market share is stuck at 15% and falling

[Kesa]

Android Phones ship with 1920x1080p displays today.
Android Phones ship with 4 core cpus @1.6+ Ghz per core.
Android Phones multitask.
Android Phones ship with 1GB+ of RAM today.
Android Phones connect to the internet.
Android Phones run real web browsers.

Of course Android Phones are real computers with a real operating system and thousands of applications and games.

If a quadcore 1.6Ghz 1920x1080p computer that effortlessly plays 1080p movies and is portable and energy efficient isn't a real computer then there is no such thing as "a real computer" anymore.

Android Phones are oranges.
PC's are apples.
They are completely different.

ps if Android multitasks then why do i have to exit most apps, go to the home screen, open another app, go back to the home screen, then reopen the original app. Most of the time it is only to do something trival.

[Kesa]

How about something simple like making a PowerPoint presentation or for that matter using any msoffice software? As a student i can confidently say it is impossible to use an ipad or Android device for uni.

In fact typing out this post using my phone is 10 times harder and annoying than it needs to be.

Also usb sticks is a must in daily uni life for all sorts of things.

I need a laptop. Tablets and phones are useless for anything but checking emails and using blackboard.

[Kesa]

Actually I wrote (and presented) a presentation on welfare reform for my last job interview using my iPad mini!

-edit- This was using keynote, but you can build PowerPoint presentations using quick office on both the iPad and android tablets.

hmmm... sounds interesting.

Personally i hope tablets never replace laptops. I hate touchscreens!

Did you get the job?

[Kesa]

but Win 7 is such an ugly interface it is pretty certain I will replace it with the Vista GUI which at least looks smart.  

If however you use some obscure emulators you can not use anything past Vista due to screen access functions provided to applications that have been removed in Windows 7.

Why is windows 7 ugly? How is vista better? Windows 7 is intuitive and efficient.

It's the orb isn't it. That's why you hate it. I guess thats the problem with having an IQ of 137 - you obsess over trival details  

[Kesa]

11 hard drives being managed through metro touch screen interface. No wonder you are not happy.

[Kesa]

Why would it slow the computer down. Maybe you could explain that to me?

But yes you are right that it would be counter productive in that for  every feature ms offers they must also provide support for that feature.  Which would be a waste if it was something only 0.1% of people would  use and the developer resources could be better put to use somewhere  else. Why waste limited/valuable developer resources on something no-one  wants?

Hey, that sounds like the economic problem - limited resources, unlimited wants.

[Kesa]

I think you two are looking at it from different perspectives. It really depends if you consider smartphones/tablets as computers or not. To me it's Apples and Oranges - they have nothing in common.

[Kesa]

OK then. I'll try and dumb it down.

"I think you two are looking at it from different perspectives. It really  depends if you consider smartphones/tablets as being the same as desktops/laptops or not. To me  it's Apples and Oranges - they have nothing in common."

Yes, to use your logic smartphones/tablets are computers the same as Apples and Oranges are both fruit. But do you consider Apples and Oranges to be the same even though they are both fruit? Personally i don't.

[Kesa]

I would have felt better if you used Ubuntu* as a substitute for Windows instead of Android :/

*By Ubuntu i am referring to their eventful transition to smartphones