People probably refer to generic functionality like personal PIM (which boils down to webmail, Facebook products and Google products) as no longer being desktop-based.
While there are industries that still use local compute and local rendering, that is exactly what it's about: industries. You might have image and video and audio manipulation. There could be hardware control. Maybe there is 'appliance'-like functionality such as POS and vending systems. But those aren't really the mass-desktop scenario that it used to be. That is mainly 'work' usage.
There is this section that you can carve out that does still exist in the traditional form and that is gaming. But that essentially turns the 'desktop' into a gaming console.
Legacy configurations that require things like an actual mouse pointer and multiple windows (or that dreaded MDI document-window-in-a-window interface) are generally left in two categories:
1. bad implementations
2. niche implementations
The first one means investment to fix, which is generally not going to happen if there is no commercial incentive for a commercial piece of software. The second one is a niche and doesn't represent desktops in general.
While there are industries that still use local compute and local rendering, that is exactly what it's about: industries. You might have image and video and audio manipulation. There could be hardware control. Maybe there is 'appliance'-like functionality such as POS and vending systems. But those aren't really the mass-desktop scenario that it used to be. That is mainly 'work' usage.
There is this section that you can carve out that does still exist in the traditional form and that is gaming. But that essentially turns the 'desktop' into a gaming console.
Legacy configurations that require things like an actual mouse pointer and multiple windows (or that dreaded MDI document-window-in-a-window interface) are generally left in two categories:
1. bad implementations
2. niche implementations
The first one means investment to fix, which is generally not going to happen if there is no commercial incentive for a commercial piece of software. The second one is a niche and doesn't represent desktops in general.