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Ask a teenager if they'd rather give up their iPhone or their laptop; I guarantee they'll say laptop.

The real problem for Microsoft and PC makers is that everyone has a PC and they don't need a new one. Whatever PC almost anyone has is now good enough. People are spending their money on the latest phones and tablets.

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True, a teenager would say that, but that's because teenagers are pretty shortsighted. Just wait until they get home and have to type up a school report. A few attempts on the touchscreen and even the most headstrong teenager will be ready to swap it for a laptop.

And while it's true that the PC market is sort of saturated, the tablet market too will suffer the same fate.

In the end the only thing that will continue to sell is services.

> Just wait until they get home and have to type up a school report.

I speak from experience, they will just use whatever PC is laying around or stuffed in a corner.

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