With the rise of mobility there is even more incentive to carrying just one device that can do all our work even on the move. Whether that will be a smarter smartphone of a tablet with voice/video communication added is something we'll have wait and watch. But there are moves for certain that is moving us towards this goal. The following article by Galen Gruman of Infoworld tries to look at what are the significant trends that indicate this.
As you'll see, like most attempts at viewing a crystal ball, there is an inherent danger of going wrong. However, discerning such a high level trend should not be too difficult!
"Samrtphones would ultimately replace Desktop PCs for most users". The evidence he offers is quite convincing. But, there guarantees that things will happen exactly the same way. Currents happening will trend to show a direction in which things are moving. He offers Motorola Mobility's Atrix, that can be docked into a simple desktop and can become a netbook. Google is promoting a cloud only computing paradigm through its Chrome OS. That should contribute to our hook up to computing power to become simpler. Android Honeycomb is coming and should make tablets more powerful. That's a move away from desktop bound computing.
That move away also takes away the need for monolithic applications like the MS Office. Apps come into use. You buy and use a highly focused tool. This is another path to lightweight computing along with everything in the cloud set up. Android is set to take over the tablet world. But that's not important. What would ultimately be meaningful is if the apps phenomenon or the cloud type is going to be favored by users.
The key mobile trends emerging from CES 2011
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment