What’s After Mobile – Ubiquitous Computing With Mainframe2
December 30, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Robert X. Cringely.
In my last two columns here I explained why iPads last longer than expected (very few mechanical parts to go bad) but that the longevity of almost any modern device is finite because of those darned mechanical parts and eventual failure of lead-free solder joints. This final column in the series is the good news: even solder failures won’t matter soon because computing hardware will shortly become irrelevant.
It not only won’t matter what kind of computer or operating system you have, it also won’t matter whether what you have is a PC, a tablet, or a phone because you’ll be able to do the same work — exactly the same work — on any of them. Personal computing has come to be about ecosystems — primarily Windows, Macintosh, and many flavors of Linux…
Though there are emulators and virtual machines that allow one machine to pretend to some extent to be another, most personal computing is still native — Windows apps on Windows machines for example. Phones and tablets, too, have their ecosystems — primarily iOS and Android. Well, that’s all about to change as our data moves to the cloud and the processing goes with it. And the very folks who created those ecosystems will have little choice but to go along…
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