http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/22/satisfaction-with-pcs-of-all-types-declines.html

Or maybe someone already has this in another thread?

I am actually going to build a new PC this fall.

I have joined the campaign for a remake of an old favorite flight game and purchased two accounts to allow me and my son to play (if he can get a system capable of running it).

I have always liked PC's that's why I have a few old ones still hanging about in closets, on shelves in the garage and even mayhaps one in storage.

With the invention of the tablets, laptops and cell phones, it brought computing to our everyday locations without all the PC bulk. And that is why they exploded in popularity...instant access to the web no matter where you are!.... the dumbing down of America.... yup.

Anywhoo.... the big 3 all need to get their acts together and improve software compatibilities to each others programs, or one or two will lose out and go bankrupt.

It won't be google.....

Dickie Tracy's wristwatch has been far exceeded by the Samsung S, which is a functional phone and TV and everything else a tiny tiny screen can do.   Just not very practical due to the tiny tiny screen.  Same issues with the Apple Watch, too small.

A cellphone tricorder communicator was a much better futuristic device.   Cell phones are really useful as they are big enough to see and touch and you can talk in your commands now, just like Scotty used to do on the Trek.

Star Trek had it right, much more so than Dickie Tracy.

You got to enjoy being ahead of the curve.   And that was a good thing.

Google Glass is going into production soon and the Google price will be about $500-$600 but will be taken down a lot lower by Asus or Acer or somebody oriental fairly soon when their version of it comes out.

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Xiaomi is coming out with a lower cost $99 oriental "Chromebook" after Christmas, running Xiao-something for an OS that likely isn't totally like the real Google ChromeOS.  

And Google is OK with this, expects it actually.  

Open source ChromiumOS has been available for years now to be copied for free, but without the Google pieces in it it really isn't nearly as complete an OS like the Chromebooks currently use.   But for the oriental user if it was packed slam full with similar oriental softwares it would sell well as the Oriental teenagers do love their Xiaomi gadgets.

But, yeah,  once again Google will have pioneered another entire device / market with one of their moon-shots that goes on to develop into its own separate tech world.

Google invents stuff, continuously, all the time.   Microsoft just goes and buys stuff that somebody else invented and then screws it up once they own it.

Google develops the idea and then lets it go free, and it grows exponentially in different ways and in different markets to become much larger than just what Google did.    

Microsoft never lets anything go free, it just rots and dies in the Microsoft Store.

Take Android for example,  Google now controls less than 20% of the software implementations and Google controls less than 5% of the Android hardware implementations, so all the rest of it is organically changing and growing Android -- driven by carriers and phone companies to do things that fit their markets and satisfy their customer base and their business needs.   Google stocks drivers and such in the LENARO supermarket so all the various boys have an easy time doing this localization stuff.

There are 6 different Androids running on full sized screens with re-sizable multiple windows and multiple login capabilities -- so Android is slowly morphing into a full blown free OS, being driven organically by carriers and customers to do this using the bits and pieces that are now sitting in the LENARO store.    

Google didn't do this, the world did.    

Now Google simply needs to standardize it into a Marshmallow or Nestle Crunch Bar flavor and kick all the fun into high gear .....

Android needs a standardized appealing full sized monitor "docked interface" to compete with MS's overly expensive porky slow Continuum docked interface.