![]() ![]() Whether you’re a take-sides partisan or a curious onlooker, I think that 2009-2011 will prove to be a critical turning point in technological history. There’s a magical combination of technologies and trends that are enabling this transformation, and the various players’ strengths and skills at taking advantage of these factors will ultimately determine both their fortunes and the nature of the computing world that we’ll all have to live in for the next twenty years. Right before our eyes, the computing world is being re-oriented, with some former heavyweights being relegated to support players, upstarts rising to prominence, and former champions taking a shot at a comeback. ![]() It’s just going to be a part of an ever-richer market segment. In the meantime, Michael Arrington is having a brief flirtation with a $25 prepaid phone, but that fling is only enabled by the existence of the iPad for routine mobile computing needs and some unrequited lust for an as-yet-unreleased smartphone. Over at Daringfireball this past weekend, John Gruber put words to what many people are thinking about after Google’s rush of Android announcements and not-subtle Apple-bashing at this week’s I/O conference: “all-out war.” I agree with Gruber that a good old-fashioned bitter rivalry could be a great thing for the computing world, and for smartphone/handheld fans in particular. ![]()
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