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¶ … Shift From Personal to Personalized Computing
A fundamental shift towards consumerization of technology formerly restricted to the datacenter or desktop has taken place in the last decade, enabled by revolutionary advances led by Apple Computer and several software organizations. At the heart of these advances is a globalized supply chain providing tremendous economies of scale for consumer electronics components, originating with Asian manufacturers such as the Foxconn complex in Shenzen, China, and similar facilities Huawei, and HTC in Taiwan.
These dual phenomena have resulted in a positive demand feedback effect, with the incomes of increasing numbers of consumers in an increasing number of countries worldwide rising to the threshold of being able to afford consumer gadgets, while the price of those same gadgets continues to decrease. The mobile phone manufacturer HTC provides an illustrative example, shipping a full 100% more telephone units in 2011 over the prior year.
NVIDIA Corporation forecasts that the market for smartphones to eventually reach ten times the size...
Gartner research corroborates such trends with a forecast of over one billion annual smartphone unit sales by 2015, representing a fourfold increase in four years.
Enabling core technologies the ever increasing compute power in ever-smaller units include multi-core processors, moldable polymer battery technology, solid-state flash memory technology, and advances in ultra-high resolution miniaturized liquid crystal-based screen displays including intuitive touch-based screen technology and more intuitive operating system software.
Handheld devices can now embody the core architecture of desktop computers, with equivalent and greater capabilities, and furthermore have introduced the compelling dimensions of personalization capability and popular fashion elegance.
Article summary: "The end of Wintel"
The historic market-dominating alliance of hardware and software giants Intel and Microsoft has begun to fragment and dissolve in recent years. The popular nickname "Wintel" has been applied to represent the union of Microsoft's Windows…
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Consumerisation: The power of many | The Economist. (2011, October 8). Retrieved November 12, 2011, from http://www.economist.com/node/21530921
Information technology in transition: The end of Wintel | The Economist. (2010, July 29). Retrieved November 12, 2011, from http://www.economist.com/node/16693547
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