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If you didn't answer "There will be a big increase in demand for those with my skills", why are you in this particular job?
Marc
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As far as I know there are very little software available to both the PC and the Tablet. The products we sell at the company I work for, are for both PC and Tablet...There are only 12 Developers that do this so we will always stay in Demand
Henco Eloff
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Tablets are consumers of content, while PCs are both consumers and producers of content. As long as this hold true, PCs aren't going anywhere. Neither are tablets. They both maintain relevence. This in turn may serve to expand the developer's job market.
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...I'm a meetings engineer
Graham
Librarians rule, Ook!
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so you'll get a manager 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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... but BACON is for ever.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
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I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Business apps will remain on the desktop PC for sometime to come.
I envisige touch screen devices will be used in business once they have matured and become rebust for day to day usage in business evniroments.
I really can't see an iPad being used in a warehouse enviroment 
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Actually in really dirty environments like machine shops they have been using touch screens for years.
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Yes all running bespoke OS's.
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Machines take over... 
Come on, what Software Development has to do with PC going down (and trust me it's not, it's only changing its form) ? a person developing on iPhone/Andriod app is also a Software Developer. Phone/Tablets are also PC (Personal Computer), It's a different kind of PC. and Software Developers are not the people develops for PC, they write Software... even for the Space Shuttle it's still Software Development.
So if you ask me the demand will only increase... There are only handful of countries utilizing IT, we still have 75% of world to adopt IT properly...
so as Steve Jobs said, PC era is over and it's now Tablet era... and as Steve Blamer said, a Truck is as much as Motor Vehicle as a Scooter, it's only in different form.
only difference in the above two statements is focus... I think we need to focus on much larger area otherwise, a scooter is not a truck.
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Yes, they need more software, not less. I am using Eclipse at the moment, I notice it could also produce Android apps, must try that out when I get a bit of time...
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The handwriting's UTF-8 is on the wall.
It will be a phone-size 20 GB RAM 16 core unit.
All users will, of course, have an optional external keyboard.
All users will, of course, have an optional external mouse.
All users will, of course, have an optional external monitor.
Not to mention the external surround sound.
This incredibly portable unit will slip easily into one's shirt pocket.
The optional usability items will fit into a stylish suitcase.
No mystery, here.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: The optional usability items will fit into a stylish suitcase
No need for the suitcase, the optional keyboard and monitor will fold up easily so that they will fit into the same pocket as the device. The mouse is already small enough.
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Yes, a flat touchpad keyboard, you could roll it up and put it in your pocket, I want one.
I foresee holographic projectors instead of screens, that would be cool.
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Those roll-up keyboards are gone, now. Some time back, I had noticed an abundance of them on the Clearance Table at Staples Office Supplies for some time. An idea who's time hadn't come.
I'll wait for the roll-up 52" monitor.
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Yeah, you could hook up a Theramin to your computer, too.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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Just curious, so far 5 people voted that response. Do you mean you don't code for a living? Or that you never code, but visit CP for the humour?
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson
My comedy.
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I voted "not a developer" as protest vote. I think the question is all wrong in the first place.
1. Nothing stays the same, so your skills have got to be on the move or you have to go into management where programming skills matter less and people skills matter more.
2. The economy matters more than skills. If the economy is good, companies will hire general purpose programmers to take up the slack to get their products out and people will acquire their skills through OJT.
People always point out that there are still lots of programs written in COBOL, PASCAL, etc. and, while that is true, they have been phased out in many companies over the past 20 years and the number of programmers who work with this have diminished. The number of people who program K&R C (as opposed to ANSI C) has diminished. Do you know anyone who programs Visual Basic that can write in line numbered/no labels Basic like in the 1970s/early 1980s? There is no reason to suspect that the same won't happen with C++, C#, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, and ASP (who programs ASP 1.0 anymore?). Lately, I've been playing around with ASP.NET MVC3 and Razor and I am so impressed with it that I am not likely to develop any new projects in ASP.NET 2.0 and I know others who feel the same way. Everything changes. Usually for the better.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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>or you have to go into management where programming skills matter less and people skills matter more
How come our managers get by without either?
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You are right, but the question was about "skills" and not "current programming language knowledge".
In last 15 year I changed technology at least 3-4 times not to mention changing programming language used at work.
So yes, I think demand for my "SKILLS" will increase. Skills to adopt, skills to learn new language, platform, db engine or anything else 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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I voted "Not a developer" because I am a hobbiest, and have made very little money from the pet projects I have developed.
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I am no longer a developer, I do write some code for 'fun' though. 
My codz skillz are irrelevant - I have C#, java and some C++ in the bag - as I design and manage developers.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I design and manage developers
Can you design some nicer ones, with better hygiene?
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson
My comedy.
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It is very unlikly that having hygiene functions will improve developers.
Anyway, I'm too busy working on a new module called Social Skills. It is not going well.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I am no developer anymore, but in the quality assurance and processes.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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