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Is the Home Desktop Going Away?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the possibly-but-not-for-a-while dept.

fishdan asks: "I recently wrote a lengthy reply to Doug Barney who had written an article saying that Apple and Linux were not trying to compete on the desktop. I saved my reply in my journal, if anyone is interested. However, this got me to thinking. Game makers have said that they are going to be developing for consoles like the Xbox or Playstation, first. Rich web applications like Writely are moving much of the standard functionality of the desktop online. Email is moving rapidly to mobile devices. Given your integrated Web/Media Center/TV that runs through your high resolution screen (that everyone will have in 10 years), what is the future of the home desktop?"

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  1. Gaming by dcollins · · Score: 2, Informative
    Game makers have said that they are going to be developing for consoles like the Xbox or Playstation, first.

    As a former games programmer, I'll respond to this. Games firms always start out on the open PC platform, then try to graduate into the more profitable and high-end console business. It's deceptive, because at the same time there are new games developers popping up to add other PC games.

    It's like interviewing college students, finding that they all want to graduate and get a job, and concluding that soon no one will be attending college.

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  2. Re:SETI@Home by SpaceAdmiral · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really?