According to technology experts, we are heading to a post-mobile future, where the division between mobile and desktop applications will become obsolete. In this post-mobile world, different devices will do the same computing via various apps, services and APIs.
According to InfoWorld, back in the early 2000s, the functional capabilities of a Windows Mobile, BlackBerry or Palm device were a separate and inferior world than what an Apple Mac or Windows PC could do. With the debut of the iPad and apps such as Apple's iWork suite, that reality started changing in the year 2010.
Nowadays, a smartphone or tablet usually has the same processing capability of a desktop computer from five years ago. They can run very sophisticated apps. Despite the differences that mobile devices impose on web services and applications, these differences do not prevent applications to be effective across the desktop and mobile worlds. However, there are still some capabilities limited mainly to mobile devices, such as an accelerometer, a touchscreen or a fingerprint reader.
Today, the computing landscape has become the same world -- a post-mobile world. The distinction between desktop and mobile is fading fast and consumers use multiple devices at the same time or whatever device is more convenient at the moment.
According to the website techpinions.com, the smartphone market has matured already and that means that it is time to start looking beyond smartphones. At the present, over two billion users own a smartphone and the market is moving from the "adoption cycle innovation" to the "replacement cycle innovation." The smartphone hardware starts to look similar to the PC hardware and is expected to see more feature evolution in the near future.
Besides the hardware and user platforms, services and applications are now fluid. They are the same at their core in terms of logic and capability while adjusting to the devices they are running on.
