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.
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.
