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I don't think he's saying desktop computing is irrelevant. I think he's saying which OS you use to access the internet is irrelevant.

I read your comment on a mobile device, and switched to my laptop to write this comment. Two different operating systems, same internet.



Yeah, I'm not saying smartphones aren't good or significant. Just that they haven't replaced desktop-computing -- just added to it. The article says things like

"Android and iOS have replaced Windows in importance"

But Windows still seems plenty-important, to me. I don't see how one replaced the other, it's just that mobile is under more dynamic development right now because it's new.


The article is not saying desktop computing is irrelevant, they're saying the choice of operating system is.


I think web apps made desktop OSs much less important for most people; I don't think switching to osx would have really been viable for most people if it wasn't for web browsers/standards.




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