Surely it would be hard to imagine a world without PCs, as we can be sure that almost every family in the world now has a PC or laptop for various reasons. However, with the recent market boom on smartphones today, researchers are now calculating the possibility on whether the smartphones will ultimately replace the PCs in the near future or not.
We can already see more and more people are using smartphones rather than laptops to browse the social networking sites in coffee shops and fast foods. Smartphones surely has the better edge in mobility, as smartphones can easily fit inside a pocket or handbag and you can take it out whenever you want. Laptops, which are easier to use on-the-go compared to PCs, still do not have the same mobility as the smartphones because of its size. Even the netbooks are still heavier and bigger than the smartphones, which will be one of the concrete reasons for smartphones to replace the PCs and laptops.
However, smartphones are still unable to surpass the PCs and laptops in term of security. Smartphones save the users’ data in the ‘cloud’ and a connection to the ‘cloud’ will need an internet access. Even though these online databases are guaranteed by the providers to be secured and safe to be used, it does not mean that these databases will not be breached by hackers. Compared to PCs and laptops, they have their own internal storage which excels in both security and size. To prevent the internal storage from being hacked by hackers, they can just cut the internet connectivity if they are not using it. By doing this, laptop and PC users can still do their work as the data needed is all stored inside the device.
However Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell said that smartphones will not be able to kill the laptops and PCs. This is because he considers that these devices are built to complement each other and each of them is dedicated to do a particular task. Therefore, it does not mean that any of them will be killed by another. This just means that the digital device market is expanding, and each person in the world will need more gadgets to live their life. As an example is GPS device that is alien to us in the past but now has been used extensively for travelling and searching for places.