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Mobile devices will rule over desktops
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch believes that mobile devices are the future of the internet as they continue to gain power and mobile broadband develops.
Speaking at today's Open Mobile Summit, Lynch's keynote speech entitled "changing meida" gave a broad view of how we might see smartphones and tablets become even more integral parts of the information technology world.
For starters he touched on processing power with smartphones that are already on the market boasting dual-core chips and the fact that performance will increase quickly as time goes on with quad-core on the horizon. He believes that there is "a 7 year gap between desktops and mobiles" in terms of processor speed.
Along with the development of smartphones has come ever more advanced batteries to cope with powering the devices. He showed that development of this technology has reached a plateau but said he believes "we're on the verge of a fresh breakthrough in battery technology".
One of the key points that Lynch raised was about mobile broadband. First he pointed out that wired broadband speeds have leveled out but mobile broadband speeds are increasing, so they will surpass it soon.
Mobile broadband technologies that will make this happen include LTE, which is being trialed by BT and Everything Everywhere in the UK later this year.
Adobe's CTO told the crowd in London that mobile devices will be used for internet access more than desktops in 2013 and that mobile broadband speeds will surpass wired soon.
We don't find this prediction surprising with almost every new device coming with the ability to connect to the internet, many people owning multiple mobile devices and Cisco predicting a quadrupling of mobile internet use by 2015.
Lastly we were shown a demo on the future possibilities of connected devices and location technology. Lynch showed how in the future we could see this, where your tablet knows where you are and can suggest appropriate apps or notify you of friends who are close by.
He gave an example of visiting the Tate Modern gallery where his tablet suggested an app to guide him through the gallery, even using proximity to know which floor he was on. His friend could locate him to say hello and allow him to borrow content such as books.
Another theory was that the device could detect other devices at a hotel and stream content to and control the TV in the room. Lynch claimed that this peer to peer awareness will be possible soon. µ
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While nothing gives more pleasure than the whirring of a uber desktop, I can see iSheep buying the mobile crap.
Lets face it 90% of the people don't even know what's inside a PC, let alone how to open it
This is absolutely hilarious. In no way, shape or form will mobile devices "rule" over desktops anytime soon. Until you can cram a 600 watt power supply into one of those stupid smart phones it's just not possible.
And as to the "breakthrough" in batteries the guy is expecting, he can think again. Battery life just keeps getting worse on mobile devices, not better. Most heavy users of their smartphones are charging them once a day, in some cases more than once. And this is with batteries that were considered a "breakthrough" only a few years ago.
"SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch believes that mobile devices are the future of the internet as they continue to gain power and mobile broadband develops."
Bullfeathers! Mobile broadband is vastly more expensive for the consumer, and on a bit-for-bit basis, is increasing in price over land-based broadband And over itself, year-over-year, for that matter).
Mobile devices simply CAN NOT provide the "big screen" experience available to a consumer with a good-sized monitor or HDTV. There's no such thing as a "mobile" 21-inch display for anyone who isn't at least 11 feet tall. A large display becomes increasingly important as the age of the consumer increases, also; no matter what Vogue Magazine tells you, the world is not composed entirely of 20-something prodigies with multi-million-dollar annual incomes.
Mobile devices rely on battery power and can't be relied on to work when most needed (especially Apple mobile devices, which are sealed to prevent the consumer from easily changing a dead battery for a fresh one).
So apparently we now know why Adobe is becoming irrelevant on the Internet: Adobe's CTO is living in cloud-cuckoo land, not in the real world.