Instead, servers will dish out data to a wide range of machines, including PCs, handheld computers, mobile phones, pagers and Internet appliances via wired and wireless connections. However, a ubiquitously networked world is still a good way off. Twenty years is a long time, and a lot of PCs will be sold between now and then, despite Capellas's insistence that the world is returning to distributed computing. So Capellas is hedging his bet. The personal computer will become the center of home entertainment.
People still have a love for the computer.
As Jobs pointed out at Macworld Expo, broadband isn't nearly as broad or as ubiquitous as it needs to be to serve applications to most households. As for wireless broadband, it's not here yet either. And first generation iGadgets have many disabilities, ranging from impossibly tiny monitors and primitive GUIs to limited power, low memory, and conflicting interface standards. Titanium timing Apple wisely seems to be focusing their product lines on the immediate future rather than on distant predictions of networked utopias. The release of the Titanium G4 Power Book is perfectly timed to take advantage of the expanding market share that notebooks have recently began to gain over desktop PCs.