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To: neolib who wrote (5270)	3/17/2012 9:50:17 PM
From: SonnyListon	of 9714

You see significance in irrelevant details and then confuse yourself into thinking it means something. Just because one can do let's say 20 to 40% of things on a smartphone that they use to do on a laptop/desktop, doesn't mean that laptop/desktop's are going to cease to exist in 20 to 40% of people's homes. People still have the other 60 to 80 % of things they need to do with their computers. This kind of crazy thinking is also adopted by your partner in crime, fpg. BTW, playing games is more than just fashion. There is the gaming experience to be enjoyed. With the multi-million dollar sales being racked up by BF3, do you think those gamers want to play this on a smartphone or tablet, when they would have to suffer compromises beyond belief?

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To: neolib who wrote (5277)	3/18/2012 1:21:57 AM
From: SonnyListon	of 9714

Don't try and worm your way out of your previous ludicrous predictions. You and fpg have been banging on about the supremacy of touch and how we are all just dying to give up our keyboards and smear our greasy fingers across the screens of non-responsive tablet keyboards. In doing so, you have predicted than en masse, the majority of people would cease having desktops and laptops, because they would be experiencing hitherto unimaginable joy touching themselves or their tablets. LOL. The fact that people not in mental asylums will still have desktops and laptops, doesn't change the scale of how ridiculous your predictions are. And you very much have been trying to insinuate that there is a direct connection between being able to do x% of one's computing needs on a tablet, with the same percentage drop off in desktop/laptop sales, completely failing to take into account that people will still need/want to do computing oriented tasks that tablets either can't do, or are extremely poor at doing.

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To: SonnyListon who wrote (5278)	3/18/2012 9:36:01 AM
From: neolib	of 9714

Perhaps you could point to anywhere that you had predicted anything close to the rise of tablets in 2011 and what they are going to do in 2012. As I keep trying to point out, the goal here is to see what is coming ahead of time, not to deny its even happened in retrospect. As far as investing goes, the best times are on the rising edge of new technologies. Poor investments typically are available in peaking, mature and declining areas. Its not a matter of the old completely disappearing. You might look at a chart of Intel or AMD for the last decade vs Apple. Now lets see, did Apple's 550B in market cap arise from ye olde style PC's or from those gadgets people hate to smear their fingers across?

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