The true reason that H-P wants out of the PC business is the rapid rise of next-generation smartphones and tablets backed by cloud computing and high speed broadband.
You’re sitting in the airport when your assistant emails the Word document of a contract for you to review. You make a few more tweaks to the document on your
smartphone, then check your watch. The client is waiting for this contract, and you’re about to board a long flight. Company policy is that contracts always go out in PDF format, and it has to come from your own email address to be official… what to do?
Things we love about our multi-touch smartphones:
- Large screen that allows reading documents without having to pan the page from side to side (see image 1)
- Powerful browsers for using web applications (e.g. SharePoint) and viewing full websites
- Ability to pinch to zoom and swipe to pan or scroll down the document
Image 1
So now we can work as efficiently away from our desktops as when we’re in the office, right? Not quite.
You’re sitting in the airport when your assistant emails the Word document of a contract for you to review. You make a few more tweaks to the document on your
smartphone, then check your watch. The client is waiting for this contract, and you’re about to board a long flight. Company policy is that contracts always go out in PDF format, and it has to come from your own email address to be official… what to do?
