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This is my new thinking on the future of the smartphone, the in-between and the laptop markets.
If you are not in your office, what is the most important piece of technology you have? Home offices don’t count. I check my email and look up info on my phone far more often than I pull out my laptop.
If it’s the phone, how much more can your phone do? I mean, future development of any smart phone? Screen size is the biggest limitation, followed by storage and processing power, but those will increase over time. Screen size won’t.
If your not in your office, and you need to “work,” then you need your tools. That’s what a laptop is for. It’s now a production tool, great for creating. It’s good at consumption, but that’s not its biggest strength. Weight, size, cost and lack of new technologies in user interface limit its usefulness as a consumption device.
But if you are not in your office and you don’t need a specialized tool for creation, then right now you have your phone. The single most important piece of tech you carry with you. But it has limits. And it is currently almost isolated from your specialized tool, your computer.
So if you need a device in the middle, between your phone and your computer, which way do you go? Do you orient the device toward the computer or lean toward the smart phone? It depends on what each device does and what you need from the new “in-between” device. I would argue that the computer is becoming more of a specialized tool and the smartphone more of a constant companion that you interact with far more often.
So, a new device should work more with the smartphone, with more limited interaction and connectivity to the computer. iPad.
The big question is IF you need an “in-between” device and I would argue that in the coming 2 years, you will. 2 years ago, I took my laptop everywhere. Especially on short trips out of town. Now I don’t. That shift has been enlightening as to how I use technology. But going forward, I think the “in-between” device will become the default device, whether netbook or iPad-type device. The smartphone will become more “phone” and be used as an accessory to the more capable iPad-type device. And computers will be more of a creation tool, not a constant companion.
My 2 cents.
Greg, I agree.
Just as the iPhone is useful to quickly show friends/clients content, and the iPad will bring that type of interaction to a new level.