Comment Replacing? No. Supplanting? Yes (Score 1) 211
Many of the comments are of the "I need a real machine to do..." kind.
However, there are roughly 2,900,000 Slashdot IDs out there, and, even if 100% of them required the "heavy lifting" of a "real" machine (which they don't...), then the sales figures (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2623415) show that, in computing terms, Slashdotters are part of the 1%, and hence, despite the vociferous arguments, you (we) are a tiny minority.
Worldwide smartphone sales to end users reached 250.2 million units, up 45.8 percent from the third quarter of 2012
Nearly 90 times the
Face it, the PC is dying, not because it's not being used (in the areas that always used to use it), but because it's being overtaken by the "not a PC" uses