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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. Might be more trouble than it's worth by Dachannien · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sure we're really not that far off from having every desk come standard with an embedded system built right into its top.

    MCP: I was planning to hit the Pentagon next week.
    Dillinger: The Pentagon?
    MCP: It shouldn't be any harder than any other company. But now, this is what I get for using humans.
    Dillinger: Now, wait a minute, I wrote you.
    MCP: I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.