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Hafner on CRM
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Information Answers - CRM meets VRM
Mobile Computing: The Cloud is the killer appCreated: Mon 25 JanSince the launch of the Nexus One comparisons with the iPhone have been everywhere, and rightly so, as Apple has so far set the standard in smartphone design and user experience. As observed by Nick Bilton of the NYT however, major players such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo are now competing across ever widening market segments. Whilst the companies started out from very different beginnings we’re now seeing more convergence as their activities increasingly overlap.
Whilst the hardware itself is important, the cloud infrastructure to provide services to new mobile devices will play a decisive role in determining the future of mobile computing. Just as choosing a desktop computer is largely a choice of operating system, choosing a mobile device is also increasingly about which OS a particular device is running, and the cloud infrastructure which supports it. Tim O’Reilly has pointed out that for Apple, great hardware may once again not be enough:
