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Like today, just better? It's likely still going to power most of the servers, 70% of smartphones, a lot of the embedded devices... And maybe desktop marketshare is going to rise a bit above the current 4%.
I think it's going to start skyrocketing in global desktop use. Maybe not in the US, but globally lots of other countries have good reason to migrate away from US based software companies