Computer dark age is coming!

On the technical news channels, I keep hearing news like PC shipment is declining ever year because people don't want new PC/Laptop when all they want to do can be done on a phone. Smart phones portable device whose more than 90% of the market is dominated by Apple and Android operating systems, which are not up-gradable (dependent on manufacturer) and software support also dies in few years. 

But the most difficult part on these devices are that you can't code on them. So when a parent choose that all they want in home is a Tablet or a phone, they deny the opportunity to a young mind (who don't know what he/she wants) to play around with a PC, to code. The main contributor to the open source community, the small tools and useful apps you get, are these people who got their interest in programming way back in 2005 when their parents bought a new PC.

Not only the declining PC sales affect the people who don't feel the need of PC, but it will affect those also who do, because the declining number for a manufacturers means that they will be discouraged to create new components for these machines, and will increase their R&D budget for mobile computing chips. 

Imagine Intel stop R&D on computer processor or only start targeting the Enterprise users. We will return back to IBM Business machines era, where enterprises use to make machines for the enterprise and only people with specialized computer degree were allowed to work on them and use them, they will make superior dumb down end user product and will price it whatever they want to, because there will be no opensource community to challenge them.

For me smart phone tablets are always nice to have, but they were also use to be a part of a Eco system where my PC sits in the center of it. Without PC where do you take your photo backups? On google drive paid storage? $24 a year for 100 GB? or $240 for 1 TB? You can buy 10 hard drive in that cost and creates effective backup strategy, to keep replica and keep all your data safe in your home and without any company seeking into it. 

PC is the important part of the digital technology and it is not going anywhere right now, but remember companies runs by sales figures, If people remain ignorant about them for long, computer dark ages will come.