What's happening in the computer world lately?

First, the cyberspace pundits, myself included, wondered if Microsoft might be in trouble over its Windows 8 coming in too little, too late to really compete with Apple's several many iPhones, iPads, iMacs, MiniMacs, and MacBooks, and now as the world and the stomach turns, the gurus of glopitta-glopitta and the backroom brainiacs from here to BungaBunga are saying that Apple's profits are maxing out due to market saturation or lack of interest or an overabundance of bullshit coupled with a shortage of disposable cash among its customers.

We've been alternately told tablets are the wave of the future, and will rapidly replace desktops as the computers of choice among the zillions of us who have to have our daily visits to the wild, wild web, in spite of the fact that big business can't really afford to throw out masses of desktops to replace them with tablets or laptops that don't hold half the guts or storage. And it's still true that the vast majority of the world's computers are the kind that we call desktops, and most of them aren't running the latest products from Redmond or wherever because it costs too much to play the engineered obsolescence game on the scale they are on, and still turn a profit for their own shareholders. So the whole thing seems to be slowly becoming overripe on the vine, if not just downright withering because its customers are just too pooped to puff. And the wheel can only be reinvented to a certain degree before it isn't a wheel any longer but just another Italian Snow Tire - ' Dey go tru mud, dey go tru snow and slop, an wen dey go flat, dey go wop-wop-wop!' Would I lie to you?