It is also – in truth – one of the greatest time-eating devices ever created.
Next was the burster, a vicious paper-eating device that ripped the forms into individual sheets (or to shreds) with the speed and the racket of a tommy gun.
Sales of home consoles have declined since the 90s with mobile devices eating into the market for casual gaming.
The growth of tablets has been held up as one of the big, disruptive forces in personal computing, with the more portable, touchscreen devices eating into sales of laptops and other, larger PCs.
The growing popularity of smartphones as multipurpose devices is eating into the sales of other electronic items like digital cameras and camcorders, leading to a fall in prices.
Sweeney also warned the TV industry that it should not worry that making its shows available on multiple platforms and devices risks eating into its traditional revenue streams.
This is going to be Microsoft's killer feature when it comes to selling those devices and eating up Chromebook's market share.
That said, other devices are slowly gaining popularity and eating into the Windows Phone device market share that is commanded by the Lumia 520.
It's the mobile devices — specifically the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices — that are eating away at Windows.
Participants used the device during eating periods on each of the three independent days.
New consumer devices eat at H.P.'s PC business, the world's largest.
