Robin Bloor, founder and leading light at Bloor Research, argues that mobile computing will dominate the industry, which could leave Microsoft out in the cold. It is pretty clear to everyone now that the world of mobile computing will eventually eat the PC world and spit out the pips. But what nobody is really sure of is when or exactly how it will happen. Mobile will dominate for obvious reasons: it is all about wires - or the lack of them. Not having to physically plug into a communications network is good. Not having to plug into a power source is also good. And this, of course, is almost as good for PC laptops as it is for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones.
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