Uh... phones? The iPhone and its popularity are not going anywhere any time soon. That market alone will keep them alive for many years to come, not to mention their tablets. They may fade out of the PC market, but EVERYONE is going to slowly fade out of the PC market in favour of tablets and phones.

The market will be there, but it will be for enterprise/business and enthusiast use for the most part. The mainstream will tend towards media consumption devices like smartphones and tablets (as they are now), and guess who dominates those fields?

I'm not saying they're absolutely the best, but they're definitely the most popular right now and will continue to be well into this decade.

This is where I disagree with you regarding Ipads and Iphones. Yes they have a big share of the market at the moment but the I devices biggest problem is they are limited because they are a mobile OS so people still need Laptops/Desktops to carry out there full tasks/jobs/games.

The only tablets that can stop the sales of the pc/laptops are windows tablets and they will not do this. Tablets will take out the Netbook market.

Tablets are used for a quick pickup and glance the web or play a game rather than used in long stints like a pc/laptop would be used as the screens are too small for this and not having a keyboard with them makes it not as easy to use for documents photo editing ect. Also you cant connect the I devices to printer and network devices without apps and they only support a small number of devices too.

I do agree with you that tablets are the next big thing but I see Windows Tablets being the big hitter when they are out later on this year as people will upgrade there laptop/pc to them rather then an Ipad or Android tablet because it offers more than them both and works with things like Office, Games x32 x64 programs ect as well as being able to plug in USB Keyboards Mouse, Storage, Printers, CD burners ect.

I am not saying Over night Apple with go bust as they wont but looking at what MS and Google are doing now they will over take Apple in the Tablet and Phone market within the next 10 years and there market will get smaller than it is now because of the way everything is limited. Yes Android and Windows were too messy and complex for the none IT people but if you look at WP7 and Windows 8 as well as the new Android ICS it is a lot more simple and a lot less limited than the Apple devises.

ya I agree about ios devices, they are extremely popular now but who knows what will happen in 5 years.