My guess is in 30 years--a lifetime in the tech world--we will be using something else. Who really knows if Apple or MS will still be playing in the phone arena.
Lots of things can happen in thirty years.
Do not forget the "two guys in a garage." They will always bring something new to the tech table.
Yeah I actually agree with you Rob.
Maybe some day we have some cool little Time Traveling devices inserted in our brains so we can all screw up the time space continuum!
I think what will happen in the future is that the usual device will have some of the bog standard (easily) changeable parts.
Like RAM, wifi card, maybe cpu like some laptops today can swap processors out, internal hard drive and / or Solid State drive (which ever you prefer price wise or whatever etc.) but they must all be very easy to replace and not everything soldered onto the motherboard so that manufacturers can make a bazillion more dollars out of us so they can buy that solid gold swimming pool.
I see Ubuntu (Important info man says: "Remember!! This is made by a legendary South African you hear!?" xD) maybe becoming a very big player and I also see maybe Tizen maybe joining the gang too hopefully?
Maybe.
Time will tell.
But the more the merrier because then they fight each other for my hard earned Rands (mickey mouse money!)
But I think I see maybe the traditional laptop maybe totally change into a tablet or touch screen device but you simply just buy a keyboard for it wireless or whatever does not matter.
It is already happening quite a crap load by the looks of it and you can already hook up a keyboard to many devices as it stands.
Smartphone sales exceed those of PCs for first time, Apple smashes record | Digital Trends
Basically what has changed is only the
way you interact with the device. I guess it is good though but when you are sacrificing / trading "looks" or aesthetics for performance because you want it to be as thin as a hair then I do get upset I guess because now everyone wants one even though I would rather have a slightly thicker device with a lot more power.
It is basically because of apple's brilliant marketing power there has been quite the shift from conventional computers ek se.
It is weird because tech like touch screens have been around for many many years but with the brain washing power of apple the sky is the limit.
Quite a lot of decades they have been around for.
I think it was as far back as the 1970's if I am not mistaken?
Anyway I know touch screens have been around for a long time.
apple are so good at marketing that they can put a few sticks in a very old dog turd and sell it for a fortune and say something like:
"From years of hard work and painstaking research we present to you... the new iTurd! It will make you go WOW from it's sheer awesomeness. It can:
1) Attract many flies
2) Help you fertilize your pegging / dying grass
3) And MUCH MUCH more!
Buy it now for only $10 000 before they are all gone!"
The power of marketing... if you are good enough you can sell dead babies... wow there are some mad people on this planet!
