What is the future of Tablet PC and Smartphone?
The evolution of technology is fast and intense, perhaps faster the imagination of those who seek to understand this world so hectic. Following its streets, perhaps far from those drawn by those who work in the industry. The proof of this lies in the comparison between expectations and five or four years ago and the present.
At one time, the center of life 'computer' was the Pc of an individual, there is now a true center. PCs, tablets, smart phones, they are all devices that are typically used with equal intensity, because all three meet different needs both in terms of space use (eg home or mobility) both with regard to the reasons for the use (eg . working or surfing).
And to think that there was a time, actually very close, when it was thought inexorable advent of a single device that would cast into oblivion phones and computers.
The small object miraculous would have to look like a kind of 'super-smartphone'. Despite the benefit of hindsight, there is still indecision about whether that prediction was the result of a weight concrete or simple infatuation for 'smart phones', then on the rise. Certainly the definitive device, in the minds of those who conceived it, was to refer to the cloud as storage space for data and software, but also had to enjoy an offline storage height.
In this perspective, the problems of synchronization - which currently make up a large part of the thoughts of the producers - would almost disappeared: the only 'link' to weave would be the one between the device and the network cloud.
The prospect did not come true. The devices continue to be many and all able to compete one another. PCs, tablets and smartphones are long dall'unificarsi in one 'device' capable of fulfilling the needs of the context (indoor vs. outdoor) and functionality. Integration, from the hardware point of view, is far away. How come?
The answer is given by the corporate strategies. The prediction of paradise monodevice had been made at a time when Apple dominated the market 100% of the mobile devices (tablets and smartphones touchscreen). Now that the market is more fragmented and other companies have cropped important spaces to sell their 'tablets' and their 'smart phones', few are willing to take the decisive step: If all types of devices they sell, why a 'company would stop producing them?
The only hope, in this sense, is dictated by Microsoft. The Redmond company does not make money with the hardware and therefore its employees could be some news on the front of monodevice. The attempt to create a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for all devices is only a tentative step toward that goal - yet, perhaps, not even declared.
24/04/2012
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