The need for "Modern PCs"

[kedawa]

I use my PC for pretty much everything that involves data.
The only exceptions are phone calls and text messages.
I don't have or need a smartphone, a tablet, or a television.
Sure, I could use a collection of gadgets and CE devices to accomplish most of what my PC does, but why replace one all-powerful box with several that, combined, can only do a fraction of the work?

[kedawa]

Also the App store Apple created has inspired a whole generation of programmers.

I'm not sure it has inspired them to do anything good.
The app store is full of 'me too' crap and monetizing schemes.

[kedawa]

Yeah, speed has very little to do with it, but a proper workstation offers I/O connections and a technical openness that current tablets just can't match.
I'm sure some day there will be tablets or tablet accessories that will make desktops entirely obsolete, but at the end of the day, it'll just be another form factor, rather than a different class of device.
I could see having a docking station that connects to external monitors, a proper keyboard and mouse, or any sort of standard peripheral, as well as an OS that's open enough to do any sort of general purpose computing, but the big sellers today are nothing like that.