Smart phones are becoming the fasted growing segment of the mobile phone market and there's a good reason. Its the Cloud. Estimated at about 100 million and screaming toward the billion mark in 2-3 years, smart phones allow you to tap into the Cloud from anywhere. (or almost anywhere) This phenomenon has created an overwhelming demand for application development that can reside in the Cloud.The reason is obvious. These little hand held devices have limitations on their power, processing capabilities ,display size and limited bandwidth. Of course even though a single smart phone has tons more capabilities than the computers that got man to the moon, they require help from other servers to provide the functionality that is users have come to expect with our desktop and laptop computers that are a scale of magnitude more powerful.
Where's it going to end? Not of course. When Compac Computers release their underpowered, limited portable computer in 1983 for $3,000 no one took them seriously. When the first laptops came out, they were limited to what you could accomplish with them. What happened? Technology caught up. So what's the future. You guessed it. The majority of our computing experience will be from smart phones. There are now more applications for smart phones than applications for all computers put together since they were invented. Try and figure that out. There's a history lesson in there somewhere.
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