So, everyone around the webs is talking about tablets. iPad was the first example and since then, every single tech company is producing, or trying to produce, its own iPad-killer device.
Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab, HTC Flyer are just few of the Android alternatives. Most tech analysts and reporters agree that Android 3.0 Honeycomb is immature. Google wants to unify the UX between smartphone and tablet users. It doesn’t matter. Really soon, every single tech experience will be the same, no matter which of our devices we decide to use. Our only choice is the Operating System. OSX, Android and Windows are the three competitors.
Everything will be on the cloud. Is that good or bad? Nobody knows yet but definitely this is the future. Do you wonder what will happen with the hardware? In fact, it’s pretty simple.
Tablets will conquer the world. They will not only smash laptops, but desktops too. Not tomorrow, but Apple is already working on it. OSX Lion will borrow many elements from iOS. Steve Jobs will show the future in a month, on the stage of WWDC. This is huge and that’s the reason I find valid the not-coming of iPhone 5 rumors.
I ‘ll describe a typical day from the future. You wake up, you throw your tablet in your backpack and head to office. You connect it to its dock and you have a decent physical keyboard and a huge screen to work on. And of course, you work on the cloud, not locally. Once you are done with the office, you head to a friend’s place to watch a movie. Connect your tablet to his TV monitor and boom, watch any movie you want. Back at your place, you have a similar dock and you can do whatever you want.
CPUs get more and more powerful as days go by. In a couple of years, quad-core CPUs will be in our tablets and their abilities will be endless. Even the, so called, heavy programs will be able to run flawlessly in tablets. Not to mention the possibility of using the computational power of idle cloud connected PCs.
It is a brave new world that Steves (Jobs and Balmer), Larry and Jeff are building for us. Do I like it? Yes, sounds amazing. We ‘ll find out if it also looks amazing in the 6th of June, when Jobs will show the OSX Lion and, probably, the iOS 5..
