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by fragmede 1101 days ago
> I'm really happy that everyone still owns a laptop

I hate to break it to you, but outside of tech, a lot of people have no desktop, no laptop, and just a smartphone these days.

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In most Areas HN is popular in, it’s still normal to have a laptop for school, work, or at least odd things like tax returns and document processing. You could use a tablet or phone but people tend to buy a laptop.

In areas where you do very much see phone and no laptop being common or the norm, the trend is towards increasing laptop ownership, not declining laptop ownership. It’s not a matter of phones displacing laptops so much as phones being more important and accessible.