In my opinion the software story and the data access story could be a lot better in the new integrated world. 1. Monoculture of a single language per platform

In my opinion the software story and the data access story could be a lot better in the new integrated world. 1. Monoculture of a single language per platform needs to go away. Its wasteful in terms of programmer productivity. 2. The data layer needs to be disjointed from the applications completely. Access to this data needs to be available on a system wide basis. 3. Power users frequently want to access their data programmatically. More attention needs to be paid to these use cases. 4. The bottom level cross application data layer needs to be based on some open standard allowing people to trivially get data in / out of the ecosystem via some scripts / programs / tools. 5. Applications need to be extensible by the end user.