Personal computer still remains a top computing platform

Although there is significant increase in the use of mobile phones and tablet computers, personal computers are still a mainstream computing platform. The large screen and high performance computing performance by PCs cannot be matched by tablet computers. There are a lot of applications where tablet and smart phone are not proper substitutes for PCs. Except the benefits of better user interface, lightweight and portability, smart phones and tablet computers hardly match the performance of latest notebook computers. ABI research in its recent study which is titled as "PC Platform is Evolving, Not Dying" explains how the latest Chromebooks and Ultraportable PCs shaping the PC market in 2016. Most of the people using ordinary Mobile phone to replace with smart phone for its inherent advantages. But a smart phone is not a full replacement for personal computer. Tablet computer is to some extent is a replacement for PC but with limits. Since much of the users or content viewers/readers, they may not need personal computer most of the time for watching content. Whereas for large size content creators/editors, personal computer is essential. ABI Research finds that 163 million notebook PCs shipped globally during 2015. The majority of shipments were laptops, which constituted nearly 80% of the category. Based on its research data ABI suggests PC market is still goi...