Smartphones will become cheaper, more powerful, more rugged, and third-world customers will opt for them because they can't afford the PC yet want access to the

Smartphones will become cheaper, more powerful, more rugged, and third-world customers will opt for them because they can't afford the PC yet want access to the wonderful things they can do on the web. Data plans will be ubiquitous even in poor areas, services will spring up where people can plug in every day for a small fee where there is no electricity, and people will learn to read when there's a reason to. They'll also shell out a bit more for the HTML and the bandwidth. HTML5 will win this battle.