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Discussion on: Which trend or advancement is being overlooked by most developers?

 
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Nowadays it is, unfortunately.

Yep, I agree. I don't think this trend is going to revert anytime soon, at least in home computing.

A friend of mine for example, totally non technical, has been telling me she wants to ditch her Macbook Pro because she doesn't know what to do with it. She bought it two or three years ago and now she uses it mainly to watch TV shows on Netflix :D Her plan is to replace it with an iPad and maybe a keyboard for when she has to type emails or invoices.

If you don't work with a computer most of the stuff you do is through a browser already.

I think the vision of the personal computer that Bill Gates talked about ages ago is being fulfilled by personal smartphones / tables, not by desktop computers. Instead of having a family PC people have personal devices and share things with each other. Nobody looks at old photos taken with the smartphone anyway :D