Umm, the desktop is dead, why keep supporting it when a smartphone or tablet can do it easier and more efficient?
Go ahead, try doing what I do on a 27” iMac, with a 24” display next to it, on your phone. Or even your tablet.
There are lots of times where there is no substitute for screen real estate.
Your attempts at raising a forest of strawman arguments for you to easily shoot down is failing miserably. You'll find it doesn't work too well around here, my FRiend. The article did not make the points you keep raising nor have the posters you are trying to put words into the mouths of. We don't fall for logical fallacies too often on FreeRepublic and especially in Apple threads.
IBM, which has deployed Macs and iOS devices in the hundreds of thousands to its employees as found that unlike Windows computers which have required one IT professional for every 70 Windows using employee, they are supporting 5,300 Apple Mac users with ONE (1) IT professional. That is unheard of in the IT world. . . but Apple Mac IT people have been telling them for years it is possible. It is easier and more efficient to use Apple products, arl.
We're not quite there yet. Maybe another ten years.