Farhad Manjoo:
Well, that’s the twist. The more I used Microsoft’s new machines, the more I thought that perhaps no single kind of device is destined to win the war for second place to the smartphone. Perhaps the very idea that there will be a second-place winner is a mistake.
What if the future of computing is chaos? We’ll have smartphones and then a dizzying array of desktops, laptops, tablets and hybrid devices — and different people, for different reasons, will choose different sets of each.
I agree with this *but* this particular angle too heavily discounts the bonds of having all of those various devices connected within the same ecosystem – be it Apple’s, Google’s, etc. Microsoft’s counter may be that its software can bridge the different vendor hardware gap, but I’m not sure that will be the case…
The future of computing is definitely having the right device for the right task. And Microsoft is definitely screwed because the interoperability of all the devices - the continuity, if you will. ;) - is going to be the most important factor allowing this many device reality to be possible.
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