Comments on: The next wave of computing won’t be on a “computer” http://www.alertrank.com/mrgooglealerts/2009/05/15/the-next-wave-of-computing/ #1 Authority on Using Google Alerts for Marketing Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:33:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Uriah Z http://www.alertrank.com/mrgooglealerts/2009/05/15/the-next-wave-of-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-879 Uriah Z Fri, 22 May 2009 07:10:35 +0000 http://www.alertrank.com/mrgooglealerts/?p=2018#comment-879 I'm not sure why you think Google will miss this wave. Android is an obvious first step to gain entry into that emerging market, and will serve them well in this next shift. Apple has been long since rumored to be working on products like what you've been talking about (I think they've basically just been waiting on the convergence of price, power consumption, and timing their marketing so they can release it after everyone's already got an iPhone and they can maximize their industry buzz). The tablets are the future, for sure. I think netbooks will be largely subsumed, but it won't be until Apple takes a swing at the design, setting the new industry standard almost by default. Netbooks will split into tablets (probably with some feature to differentiate by) and budget laptops. Apple will get vast amounts of pundit media churn when they announce their next 'revolution in computing', you can just see it. I'm not sure we'll see any new billionaires, though. I think the old billionaires will add a few billions, and there'll be some new millionaires feeding at their feet, lording it over the more numerous struggling developers, much as with the Apple App Store currently. I’m not sure why you think Google will miss this wave. Android is an obvious first step to gain entry into that emerging market, and will serve them well in this next shift. Apple has been long since rumored to be working on products like what you’ve been talking about (I think they’ve basically just been waiting on the convergence of price, power consumption, and timing their marketing so they can release it after everyone’s already got an iPhone and they can maximize their industry buzz). The tablets are the future, for sure. I think netbooks will be largely subsumed, but it won’t be until Apple takes a swing at the design, setting the new industry standard almost by default. Netbooks will split into tablets (probably with some feature to differentiate by) and budget laptops. Apple will get vast amounts of pundit media churn when they announce their next ‘revolution in computing’, you can just see it.

I’m not sure we’ll see any new billionaires, though. I think the old billionaires will add a few billions, and there’ll be some new millionaires feeding at their feet, lording it over the more numerous struggling developers, much as with the Apple App Store currently.

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