The Mobile Revolution Over the Last 5 Years (AAPL)

The Mobile Revolution Over the Last 5 Years

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It has now been five years since Apple's introduction of the first iPhone in January 2007. Andrew and Evan talk about some of the changes that the smartphone and mobile industry has seen over the past five years and how Apple has revolutionized the industry.

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Report this Comment On January 18, 2012, at 1:55 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

Mobile is still in an awkward infant state because of its obscenely skewed and vastly diversified form factors. A FM radio is mobile. An iPhone is mobile. The 5 billion cellphones are mobile. A notebook is mobile. This state of mobile prevents serious deployment of mobile technologies and thus, all the serious developments are still predominant on the non mobile servers such as web site servers, news servers such as CNN, even radio station servers, as all the mobile form factors take on an insignificant service consumer role, this has to stop if the mobile is to evolve further, mainly with the 5 Billion existing mobile users, there has to be a standardized mobile that can be the foundation of truly significant development, and quite rapidly, the iPhone is becoming the standardized mobile for the 5 Billion existing mobile users.
iPhone 4s already allows natural language to be the interface between the apps and the users through Siri, allowing new generations of apps to perform the services that are now being performed on the servers, reversing the roles between the mobile and the servers where mobile provides the services, and servers subscribe to the mobiles. The cloud computers will subscribe to the mobiles, allowing the expensive infrastructures to be offloaded to the mobiles instead of the servers which can now leverage on the cloud. As the number of mobiles go up, the cloud elasticity will kick in, and as the number of mobiles go down, the cloud can contract accordingly. This reversal of role was central to the design of the X11 Unix design which was ahead of its time but makes great sense now.
Universality would be in the mobile, not the servers. There will be humongous change in the computer development world as new paradigms will emerge to reverse the current client server model, as I observe in the many system and application conventions I am observing this trend, transactions should be processed on the mobile, the aggregate information to be accessed by the servers for analytical and control purposes. All the history will be stored on the mobile instead of on the servers which subscribe to the mobiles, this will cut down the network traffic by magnitudes, and as the mobile is now a completely full function machine, all the individuals will be subject to the security and roles on the mobile which will be most effective in stopping security threats and frauds at the user level which promises a much more effective and economic solution.
If anyone wishes to know more, please inquire me by posting your questions here in your comments.
Report this Comment On January 18, 2012, at 6:06 PM, techy46 wrote:

Mainframes, 1960-1990, Minicomputers 1970-1990, PCs 1980-2010, Networks 1990-2020, Mobile PCs 2010-2030, we got a lon ways to go before anythings decided.

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