I don't understand. Kevin Parrish writing another pro-Android article? Surely not.
[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]What about the millions of people who don't have ethernet printers[/citation]
Most of these can either plug their printer into a USB slot on their router or simply into a PC. People who have printers this old have PC's they are connected to. Simply turn the PC on and wirelessly print from your phone over home network.
[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]You seriously believe that they don't already have a team of boffins working with Windows 8 already to knock out a new version just for that purpose?[/citation]
Like this article demonstrates, touch screen is not always the best tool to use for certain applications. In the case of the article, games, in the case of software, Photoshop etc. will not work at all well on a touch screen interface. There are so many different commands, so much detail to fit on screen, so many types of input required that it will simply never be as efficient as working on a PC. Graphic designers need a large screen, and a keyboard & mouse and importantly they need performance. I'm not sure even the GPU in the iPhone 4S would be good enough, and that's the fastest you can get right now.
Office, on the other hand, pretty much already works on mobile devices with the likes of Google Docs & various other similar services.
In other words, there are some things for which a PC with keyboard/mouse is always going to be better than touch screen, graphic design is one of them, gaming is another, but for the majority of tasks touch screen is fine, and for most of those you can already do them on pretty much any smartphone.
[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]I'd like to see Android turning into a complete OS that is able to kick Microsoft completely out of the mobile space (at least). ARM + Android FTW!!! It's about time that the decades lasting Wintel monopoly ends![/citation]
Why would that benefit anyone? Replace one monopoly with another? Competition is good, your argument defeats itself.