There are two interesting brands that make PC in the world, one is apple and the other is Microsoft.Apple has been doing all-in-one machine since birth and is named as iMac; while Microsoft is almost all other PC products besides desktop, Have done, including one machine Surface Studio.
Although iMac or Surface Studio is very good, but the fact is hidden, consumer-level machines are gradually out of the public's field of vision.
As the current hot game this one, the consumer-level machine also had a brilliant years.From the second half of 2009 until 2013, the consumer-level machine market unprecedented prosperity, within a year there are dozens of different models One machine product is a very normal thing.
However, with the rise of notebook computers, consumer-grade machines gradually declined, even faster than the decline of Windows 8 at the time.
Today, the consumer-level machine seems to be still looking for the most suitable target group.This year released consumer-level machine products, design groups and high-end business groups seem consumer-level machine 'temporary' target Making the development of consumer-level integrated machine gradually advanced to the high-end direction, the price soared all the way.
One machine has advantages but no market
Consumer-grade machines have many advantages, such as getting rid of a variety of wire to make the desktop cleaner, bigger screen, more suitable for content sharing, which is what home users need.
The designer's requirements are stronger hardware and better screen, which undoubtedly increased the cost of the whole machine so the most suitable for the use of one machine should be home. Many people think so, including 6 years ago, each Brand responsible for consumer-level product manager.
However, the fact is that the hope is that the consumer-level consumer of home users will eventually not be sold out.
Perhaps we imagine the Chinese home users are too idealistic.The pursuit of simplicity, the pursuit of entertainment, the pursuit of sharing ...... These are the labels we affixed to home users.
But from a practical point of view, you will find that the labels we give to home users are nothing more than the allegory generated by our external influence, not fact.
To the current standard of 5 family point of view, the two old people's thinking may still stay in 'TV is simple and interesting than the computer' above, the notebook is more suitable for the husband and wife working hard in the workplace, the child's entertainment life is completely mobile phone Occupation. There is no consumer-level machine where, if any, it is nothing more than home decoration.
This is the author's own witness phenomenon, I believe this is the epitome of most Chinese families in the absence of new demand before the replacement of consumer-level machine location, it can be a smart TV, it can be an old Desktop or smart phone.
The market will continue to shrink
There is a week's time is 2018, I believe that the consumer-level machine market will continue to shrink. Judgment based on two points:
First, China's family structure is rather special, I am afraid that the demand for one machine is not as good as the monitor.
And because young people of marriageable age basically have their own laptops, after the formation of families, there is no demand for new computers; the second is that the market downturn allows manufacturers to focus more on other places, and all-in-one The evolution just exists in the appearance and so on, the competitiveness is getting weaker.
So it's perfectly true that most consumer-1-based vendors target their products to high-end users, so to speak, consumer-grade machines are now on the brink of change, and without new technology, perhaps one iMac is all consumer-level machines.
A smart home might change the fate of a machine
Fortunately, however, with the advent of consumer-compatible devices, the technology vane evolves from the mobile Internet to the smart home, giving the consumer-level machine an opportunity, though this opportunity could completely change the look of the all-in-one.
In the smart home, mobile phones and computers will become the center of control.Notebooks are awkward among them, and the role of laptops in smart homes is more like the mobile phones are able to carry around because they overlap in functions Is a supplement.
The consumer-level machine is different, when the consumer-level machine is no longer what we see now, but will be transformed into a table and other appearances. We not only put it as a table, but also through voice or touch screen Control what we need, such as a simple switch light, the more complex may be online shopping and other operations.
Whether this product is still one machine, in fact, remains to be discussed.
But what's certain is that at the moment neither the laptop nor the desktop can do that, and after enlarging the consumer unit, it's a table that people can interact with There is no point in arguing whether one is a machine.
