With emerging smartphones, the new market has clearly given the old market, a run for their money. Too many people will favor the desktop times, while others will support the growing smartphone market. Most of them, those in support of mobiles, strongly believe that the mobile market is emerging into the developing countries rapidly.
A mobile application development market might be going for a kill; however, it is still too early to say that it is going to eat away the desktops, laptops, and tablets. Users in developing countries use smartphones to access the Internet, not out of choice, but due to unavailability of desktops, electricity, cost factor, or various other reasons.
Have you honestly seen businesses, chucking desktops for shifting everything on mobile? Alternatively, is abandoning laptops or tablet right, in order to get everything on mobile? It is far more likely that mobiles can completely replace their elder versions, because quite honestly what businesses can do on desktops or laptops, is still not possible with mobiles, due to speed and other issues.
Why mobile is still not a preferred choice?
The reason is quite simple. Most organizations get work done efficiently and more importantly in an effective way when opting for big screens. However, that is not all. There are several more reasons supporting our argument.
1. Text precision varies a lot
If you have to jot down few letters of text, then a mobile keyboard would work wonders. What if, serious content editing is required? Typing things on mobile, especially when dealing with long blocks of text, become highly cumbersome. It is not just about writing text, it is also about manipulating them, which is a way harder task on mobile, as compared to desktops or laptops. So, what are the actual problems faced?
- Auto correct suggestions always conflict with the positioning with the cursor.
- It is very hard to accurately place the cursor.
- Auto correct feature disappoints on many fronts.
- Tapping is difficult to handle as compared to using the arrow keys.
- Copy/Paste can irritate you to the core.
- Handling multiple tabs at a time
You can have ease handling a single screen on your smartphone. However, when it comes to handling multiple screens or tabs at a time, it is very hard to do so in case of mobile. Doing the same thing on desktops is a lot easier. Imagine if you want to perform multiple tasks together, including copy/pasting, comparing drafts, writing job, gaming, and more, then only big screens can come to your rescue.
2. Accessing app files and folders
For most part, the files are a hidden option on smartphone, especially when it comes to mobile apps. User data remains hidden for the most part, with individual UX technique associated with the app, to access that data.
Files, for the most part are invisible for most mobile apps. The user’s data is literally hidden within the app itself, with each having its own UX technique for showing that data. There is no doubt that when it comes to a fully-fledged desktop, they are less double whammy when compared to the apps, and more advantageous when it comes to cloud storage.
We are not supporting desktop, instead encouraging mobile!
We are not here to debate in favor of desktops, or confront mobiles. Instead, we want to motivate mobile users, and developers to enhance the capabilities of mobile to such an extent, which can make them equally competent to that of desktops.
