On 22/02/18 08:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Yes. And 20 years ago, that number of laptops with a drive would have been significantly larger. You are providing my point.
No he's not, he's proving another point. The market for tablets has provoked a market that never existed before; laptops that are as light as laptops, that can run all day like tablet. But to get that performance, compromises have to be mad: they have to be thinner, lighter, and that means stripping them down. It's not that the market for optical recoding vanished, its that the market for a DIFFERENT type of device was created, and without a corresponding increase in overall market size. You could equally argue that Apple, the SmartPhone, Ipod and tablets have displaced the market of "thick", well equipped laptops. My portable devices all have slots for cards: sdxc and microsdxc -- phone, tablet, laptop and camera. They simply don't have the size or power to accommodate a floppy disk or DVD drive. But lets face it; these devices didn't even exist 20 years ago; they've CREATED a new market. That's what's missing from your argument, JP. "Availability". -- If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -- Voltaire -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org