{"id":1967,"date":"2013-09-16T23:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=621"},"modified":"2013-09-16T23:50:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:50:42","slug":"the-future-of-your-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/the-future-of-your-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Your Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since IBM invented the first portable computer in 1975, the IBM 5100<\/a>, people have loved the idea of taking their computer with them.\u00a0 Well, perhaps I shouldn\u2019t really say it was portable, the thing was huge.\u00a0 And it cost $8000-$16000, but that\u2019s beside the point.\u00a0 Laptops have become a staple of our society.\u00a0 We can easily pick up our work, games, hobbies, really our whole lives, and take them with us wherever we go.\u00a0 Our fast paced, on-demand lives wouldn\u2019t exist without them.\u00a0 But do they have a future?<\/p>\n

Every day tablet and phone sales increase, and traditional desktop and laptop sales decrease.\u00a0 In fact, Digitimes has forecasted a very aggressive sales increase for tablets.\u00a0 They predict a 38% increase in tablet sales this year, reaching 210 million units.\u00a0 This would overtake laptop sales if correct.\u00a0 Although no one is sure if these predictions are accurate, I don\u2019t think anyone would be shocked if they turned out to be completely true.<\/p>\n

The traditional laptop as we know it is becoming less and less popular.\u00a0 The main competitor is the obvious Tablet.\u00a0 A touch screen based computer, that although is slightly limited in functionality, are becoming more impressive and useful every day.\u00a0 Applications created and sold on the app stores for both Apple and Android are only getting more remarkable. Phones have many of the same apps and capabilities, but the smaller screen size and huge diversity of devices tend to make them less useful as laptop replacements.\u00a0 Dual laptop\/tablet devices have also become very heavily marketed, especially alongside Microsoft\u2019s Windows 8 OS which is obviously designed for a touch device.<\/p>\n

While all these devices may serve a purpose and even have some benefits over a traditional device, I think a market will always exist for laptops.\u00a0 You can\u2019t underestimate the value of a well built, high powered, well-spec\u2019d laptop.\u00a0 Power users like programmers, designers, gamers, and engineers will always go for the higher powered device.\u00a0 The tablets and other touch devices just don\u2019t have the power to keep up with the work that some of us do.<\/p>\n

So are laptops going to disappear?\u00a0 No, not for a long time they aren\u2019t.\u00a0 But they are going to become rarer, and that will impact how we do business.\u00a0 You are going to be expected to share data over apps, bring a tablet to meetings to use certain planning applications, and other things of that nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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