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| From | Homer <usenet@slated.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: Hordes of people would _love_ to have a desktop, but can't afford it. |
| Date | 2016-04-08 03:01 +0100 |
| Organization | Slated.org |
| Message-ID | <dmohnqF3v21U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <nduans$68g$1@dont-email.me> <dmobv9F2n9lU1@mid.individual.net> <Jeff-Relf.Me@Apr.7{5.59P.Seattle.2016}> |
On Friday 08/04/2016 1:59 AM, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote: > > > Hordes of people would _love_ to have a desktop, but can't afford it. And yet that same demographic somehow manages to spend over $700 on a smartphone (or more if they pay by contract), with which they could probably have bought your PC at least twice, had they been interested. > It takes me 3.5 seconds to copy a 3.5 GigaByte video. > I watch 4K videos on my 4K monitor; CPU-GPU, no graphics card. > I download 4K videos from YouTube, to wit: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep_mf6ZE9U0 None of the world's billions of mobile device users care. They already have the freedom to buy a "desktop" and do the above, but choose not to. They have radically different interests and priorities than the remaining fringe minority of die-hard "PC" dinosaurs. They want to play Candy Crush and make silly faces at each other on Snapchat, in the brief intervals between what most of us call "having a life". The era of fat, balding, middle-aged geeks living in their mother's basement, spending all day stroking a beige tower stuffed with power-sucking, noisy and overpriced hardware, is well and truly over. -- K. http://slated.org
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Re: The Linux Community is directly responsible for Linux's abject failure. DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-07 10:55 -0400
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Re: The Linux Community is directly responsible for Linux's abject failure. Omar <omarsayeed@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-05 07:06 -0400
Re: The Linux Community is directly responsible for Linux's abject failure. Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-04-08 01:23 +0100
Re: Hordes of people would _love_ to have a desktop, but can't afford it. Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-04-08 03:01 +0100
I am game for fighting to the death the new generation of Zombies. John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 01:52 -0700
Re: I am game for fighting to the death the new generation of Zombies. Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-04-08 18:28 +0100
Re: I am game for fighting to the death the new generation of Zombies. DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-08 15:55 -0400
Re: I am game for fighting to the death the new generation of Zombies. Omar <omarsayeed@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-08 16:07 -0400
Re: I am game for fighting to the death the new generation of Zombies. Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-04-10 01:02 +0100
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Re: I am game for fighting to the death the new generation of Zombies. Me Sham <osirus47@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-12 09:55 -0700
Re: If you've $700 phone, you have desktop too, most likely. Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-04-08 18:07 +0100
Re: If you've $700 phone, you have desktop too, most likely. DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-08 15:42 -0400
Re: If you've $700 phone, you have desktop too, most likely. Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-04-10 00:55 +0100
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Re: The Linux Community is directly responsible for Linux's abject failure. chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-04-08 07:05 -0500
Re: The Linux Community is directly responsible for Linux's abject failure. Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2016-04-08 17:46 +0100
Re: The Linux Community is directly responsible for Linux's abject failure. Omar <omarsayeed@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-08 13:04 -0400
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Re: The Linux Community is directly responsible for Linux's abject failure. Omar <omarsayeed@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-09 08:37 -0400
Re: The Linux Community is directly responsible for Linux's abject failure. Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-09 14:53 -0400
Re: The Linux Community is directly responsible for Linux's abject failure. Omar <omarsayeed@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-09 17:49 -0400
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Re: The Linux Community is directly responsible for Linux's abject failure. JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2016-04-12 12:46 -0500
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