>Most of what I see normal consumers doing is in Android, typically on ARM
Comparing cell phone OS to a desktop OS is a bit silly. Nobody in the corporate world is doing work on Android.
Comparing cell phone OS to a desktop OS is a bit silly. Nobody in the corporate world is doing work on Android.
If you'd like to see how well trying to focus on that niche works, have a look at DEC Alpha, MIPS, PA-RISC, Itanium, Sparc, PowerPC, etc.
At the end of the day, it comes down to manufacturing volume. Volume leads to investment in next-generation technologies. More investment means, at some point, competitors can't keep up. Manufacturing doesn't care too much about who the ultimate end user is.
Even big players like Microsoft are forced to offer their software and services on non-Windows platforms (like mobile and tablets!) if they want to remain relevant.
So counting desktop only paints a false picture, wrt where users are and where computing is happening.
And that last bit is what is relevant from a Intel POV. An increasing amount of compute is now done outside the Intel-chip arena of desktops, like it used to be before.