> It may come -- but probably from an entrepreneurial start-up somewhere. How about phones with fewer gadgets but better at making calls? Or with never-ending batteries? Or chargers that don't weigh three times as much as the phone?
The funny thing is that there's a huge market for all of these things, but the profit margins are much thinner than on smartphones. 6 years later this article seems completely off-base, it would be interesting to revisit it in 20.
That's the part that struck me, reminiscent of Henry Ford's possibly misattributed quote, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” How quaint it now seems, the thought of carrying a device that's not an always-networked computer, with the incidental ability to place voice calls.
In 20 years, it's likely the device will be implanted, perched on our shoulder or hovering around our head, and the thought of having to physically remove our communication tool from our pocket to use it will seem impossibly outdated.
The funny thing is that there's a huge market for all of these things, but the profit margins are much thinner than on smartphones. 6 years later this article seems completely off-base, it would be interesting to revisit it in 20.