The things phones do 'ok' now, they will do 'well'. (video, 3d gaming, low-light photo)
The things they do 'poorly' now, they'll start doing 'ok'. (augmented reality, pico projection)
And things they don't do will have to break into 'poorly' pretty soon, if they're going to have any chance of being counted as actual features in 2 years. (vs maybe being hypothetical capabilities backed by a few buggy proofs-of-concept)
And massive changes to the ergonomics of the device won't happen. Projected keyboards? nope. Folding screens? Not a chance in hell. Auto-peering mesh networks? Not outside of trade shows.
it's sad because the problem of meshing has been solved pretty well ( olsr, batman, etc.), but there's almost no motivation for the big networks to implement it.
I predict status quo and price creep, while Android carves at the iPhone's market share. Instead of new features, we'll get the same features on different platforms!
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Two years seems pretty easy to me.
The things phones do 'ok' now, they will do 'well'. (video, 3d gaming, low-light photo) The things they do 'poorly' now, they'll start doing 'ok'. (augmented reality, pico projection)
And things they don't do will have to break into 'poorly' pretty soon, if they're going to have any chance of being counted as actual features in 2 years. (vs maybe being hypothetical capabilities backed by a few buggy proofs-of-concept)
And massive changes to the ergonomics of the device won't happen. Projected keyboards? nope. Folding screens? Not a chance in hell. Auto-peering mesh networks? Not outside of trade shows.
it's sad because the problem of meshing has been solved pretty well ( olsr, batman, etc.), but there's almost no motivation for the big networks to implement it.
I predict status quo and price creep, while Android carves at the iPhone's market share. Instead of new features, we'll get the same features on different platforms!