[citation][nom]bigbodzod[/nom]My continuing hatred of mobile devices is really on predicated on the fact they are *always* tied to some god-aweful mobile service Hence the reason I shun these devices and could care less.However I do see something good, where a smart wireless device could act as a remote control for said Media/Storage Center that is installed into every home.Could be there is an app for this already ?[/citation]
I'm not so worried about the crappy mobile services (they tend to work just fine over wifi which is everywhere I go), but it seems that mobile devices are like the special olympics: Absolutely amazing... all things considered. (obviously nothing against the special olympics; there is nothing more inspirational than people overcoming personal limitations)
Some of the fault are the craptastic software platforms, while other issues stem from genuine hardware limitations; but to say that mobile devices available today can replace a PC without any major sacrifices is simply out of the question. That being said, phones and other mobile devices are getting better very quickly. Some of today's high-end mobile hardware is almost even useful if it were not crippled by the OS's available (something I hope WP8 and the next few iterations of Android will remedy).
In the next 10 years I could easily see the mobile phone replacing the PC for most users, and (with streaming capabilities or docking augmentations) some gamers. Phones will start having wireless connections to TVs (like Widi) which will make them the ultimate HTPC. They will begin to have better printer support, and key/mouse/voice support for content creation tasks. App selection will get better and better (but getting rid of the 'walled gardens', or moving to local-style web/html5 applications would bring much faster innovation). Docks, wireless connections, and voice interfaces will make current crippling interface issues obsolete.
The PC over this 10 year time period will evolve into the home server and big content creation machine. It will be for those big video editing/transcoding projects, serving personal content to mobile devices, and for die-hard gamers. Instead of 1 PC per power-user in the household, we will see 1 PC per household, and then terminals or docs which will give our mobile devices better 'PC like' capabilities (like a real screen, or even a GPU for local 4K gaming).
In 20 years I fully expect the PC form factor to be relegated to some content creation (CAD and video game design) and even fewer home servers (most will be on the cloud by this point). It will not be that phone hardware will necessarily get that much better (though I expect that it will), but more because corporate and local clouds will be capable of doing all heavy lifting for everything from video editing to the highest of video game playback at even the highest of resolutions (talking well above 4K resolution... more like a retna wall display). People may still have a PC form factor box, but it will be interacted with like a server that provides data and processing for a host of personal devices, and you would rarely ever sit at the device itself to use it directly (unless something is terribly wrong lol). All personal devices (including the beginnings of consumer bio-embedded devices) will simply hook up to other user interfaces (displays, keys, mice, touch, voice, etc), and compute resources (cloud or local) appropriate to the workload at hand.
In short, the revolution over the next 20 years will not be in processing power; It will be in connectivity between devices to make such resource sharing reliable and practical, with capable but relatively dumb mobile devices being the front end of super-computing resources, and truly massive file space.
I hope that Intel does not miss that boat and invests more in network controllers and interfaces (something I was happy to see them working on with their work on lightpeak before it got dumbed down to what is now thunderbolt).
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