Comment by somenameforme

People state stuff like this regularly, but it's not correct. The vastly overwhelming majority of people still have and use a PC. The only thing that's really changed is that a 10 year old PC is good enough for just about every normal task short of high end gaming or a handful of rare tasks. So sales slowed dramatically.

But even with dramatically slower sales, that's around ~300 million sold per year. By contrast, the iPad is selling about 60 million units a year. In the US at least, the number of people that replaced their computer with a phone is negligibly low, and it's largely made up of extremely low income families.

Incidentally, phones are also headed for the exact same fate as PCs. The one saving grace they might have is that lion batteries die over time which is why Apple is quite adversarial with regards to users changing their batteries, but they are already losing that fight on multiple fronts.