It's a thoughtful post. It seems to me that iOS was successful in no small part because the available hardware was sufficiently powerful to drive a compelling e

It's a thoughtful post. It seems to me that iOS was successful in no small part because the available hardware was sufficiently powerful to drive a compelling experience (with some of the compromises). It couldn't have happened (much) earlier. I would be happy to find that hardware is now sufficiently powerful to drive a product as ambitious as Windows 8, that compromises none of the power of a traditional computing experience. In a broader sense, I hope that hardware is or will soon become sufficiently powerful to enable products that leverage higher levels of abstraction in order to experiment more, and fill more niches in the computing spectrum, to allow more radical departures from dominant computing paradigms. Stuff like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2921398 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2921398 I'm afraid that the future role and mode of computing are becoming more and more narrowly defined, and that definition revolves primarily around consumption, instead of creation and connection.