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Mobile Devices Will Outnumber People By 2017
DavidGilbert99 writes "According to the latest report from analysts at CCS Insight, there will be more mobile phones and tablets in use in four years' time than there are people on the planet. With the machines well and truly taking over, will we be using them or will they be controlling us?"
Between the shoddy code, poor manufacturing tolerances, poor quality control, and dependence on power sources that they cannot protect, computers and devices will not take over in my lifetime even if there was an intent to do so. That doesn't even get into design that requires humans to perform maintenance tasks, flick switches, or otherwise do things that keep the systems up that the machines might not even know about.
XKCD said it best.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
TFA contends that all smartphones & tablets sold are still in use. If you buy a new smartphone and throw away / recycle the old one, you don't get to count this as 2 smartphones in use.
Define "In Use".
I sure as fuck only have 1 phone and 0 tablets, and that's won't even change.
Everyone I know who has a tablet and a phone pretty much only uses the phone.
I sure hope so!
You fuck more than 1 phone and a tablet on the side - well buddy, you can bet your ass that the phone will find out and leave you. And what? You're stuck with an aging, sagging, out of date tablet who can't even play Flash videos?!
Really?
On a side note, folks say I ahve a porblem with reading compreshension and spelling. I have no idea where they get that from!
They won't "control" us in any cool, malevolent-supercomputer-overlord, kind of way; but I'll confidently predict a downright alarming number of man hours spent drooling mindlessly and poking at the blinky lights that live behind the glass on the shiny thing.
It's too bad, really. Getting crushed by a malevolent supercomputer would be flattering in a way(just like being assassinated, only people worth mentioning get that). The fact that humans will spend time sucking up to a Tamagotchi if you let them is... rather less flattering.
It is fun to use a Moore's Law extrapolation. Only 30 years later, cellphones will outnumber insects on the planet. And in a another 173 years after that, they will outnumber the atoms in the universe
Let's see, everybody in this household has a phone, tablet and we have a netbook. 7 devices for 3 people.
Yeah, I can see mobile devices outnumbering people.
Realistically, tablets will always exist next to phones. Some people might like "phablets" but form-factor matters. A phone can replace a camera, can have a lot of handy apps, but is lousy for reading, browsing and video compared to a tablet (yes, they can be done, but... ugh). In short, the tablet and smart phone are two form factors that will likely be useful for some time.
Not sure where the "smart watch" will fit in, I see it more useful as a peripheral for your phone, but some people may see it as a replacement for the phone, and supplementing as a hotspot for a tablet (which then handles everything your phone might have). That's still two devices per person, as a reasonable "data and communications tool set"
I carry two smartphones, have an ipad and a Nexus 7... oh and a kindle that I use when I travel... Actually I have 4 Nexus 7's.. 3 are broken ones friends gave me. and I believe I'll have a couple more broken ones soon, those replicate fast.
So yes, if people keep breaking nexus 7's I'll have 100,000 of them by the end of the year... all broken..
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Right this moment, there are more ears of corn in use than there are people on the planet. Will we be eating them, or will they be eating us?
Seriously... having lots of something doesn't automatically change its nature.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex—but Congress can. – Cullen Hightower
I am sitting in a conference room at work right now that has enough chairs for everyone at my small company to sit in. There is also a chair for me in my office, another at my desk at home, and one more in the dining room! And just think of all those chairs at restaurants around the world just waiting for me to sit in them! In fact, a recent study determined that there are 4.6 chairs for every man, woman, and child on the planet (I'll have to get back to you with the reference on that one). Basically the world has been conquered by chairs without us even realizing it.
Cause when we reach a certain ratio of wireless devices to humans, people who are allergic to WiFi will start spontaneously combusting in the street.
So make sure you have your WiFi capable cameraphone with you in case you bump into one of those.
It will make a great twit-post on your face-place wall thingy.
On a side note... That's a whole lot of lithium. Just sayin...
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"You are and idiot"
Your self-referential post speaks for itself.
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Tablets are horrible for reading ebooks. They smudge easily, they strain the eyes, and the battery life won't support reading for an extended period. An e-ink reader is orders of magnitude better.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?