Smartphones (and the distinction at the low end is blurring fast) are simply displacing PCs, as was inevitable and anticipated by people such as Mr Gates when h

Smartphones (and the distinction at the low end is blurring fast) are simply displacing PCs, as was inevitable and anticipated by people such as Mr Gates when he launched his war on Symbian. The fun part about this Internet of Things business is it will go one of two ways; either everything will end up linking through the cloud/NSA, a paradigm web browsers can handle, or it will work with a lot more peer-to-peer connections and long running services, for which the only viable frameworks today are native apps. There are a lot of vested interests pushing the former option, but I'm more willing to bet that the latter is what actually happens.