> A recent mobile phone [...] has approximately the same computing power as Deep Blue... Computing power doesn't mean a whole lot when the screen is just 4 inc

> A recent mobile phone [...] has approximately the same computing power as Deep Blue... Computing power doesn't mean a whole lot when the screen is just 4 inches wide and the only way to interact with it's proprietary non-multitasking OS is by poking it with your finger. > Moreover, Apple's iPhone revenue (just the iPhone) is in the same ballpark as the revenue from everything sold by Microsoft. Microsoft generally doesn't sell hardware, so I'm unsure how this comparison would be useful. > As for the equipment rate of smart phones, it's steadily growing higher than PC equipment rates. [...] a smartphone is becoming [...] the main device they use to access the internet. PC hardware's biggest customer is and always has been business. That's not being replaced by mobile. College kids aren't writing their papers on mobile devices in large numbers. Government agencies aren't switching to mobile devices for their data entry. So in that respect, "mobile is the future" didn't pan out because "the future" is generally expected to wholly replace the "the past" and that is certainly not happening. > please, enlighten me. Consider yourself enlightened.