Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Future of Computing - Say What? Really?

There was an article recently by a Google big-wig who stated that in three years, conventional computers will be obsolete, replaced by nicely convergent smartphones.

Hogwash - say I. Perhaps (and probably more than likely) smartphones will be more prevalent - more powerful, and certainly more "strategic".

Until smartphones have the input and output capabilities of a notebook or desktop workstation (or even a netbook for that matter), I think that one need not dread the obsolence of any computer purchases. Let me qualify this - no matter the technology, any hardware that is purchased now will be effectively obsolete in three years anyways, so I doubt if we all have too much to worry on that end.

Spend hearty - and spend fast and make the most of the technology you have. Three years is an eternity in this business.

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