The following is Joshua-Michéle Ross’s interview with Roger Magoulas, Director of Research at O’Reilly. They recently sat down to talk about “the next device.” In this segment of the interview, Magoulas talks about palm projectors and OLED screens on how these will be disruptive. During the interview, Josh also notes that Apple has opened up the hardware API, and so physical keyboards could be coming soon.
What is interesting about this conversation is how portable computers (lappys, netbooks, tablets) could become irrelevant in the larger conversation. As the iPhone and Android markets mature, the phone could be the only computing device you need. Palm projectors, such as the Pico, aren’t there yet (Roger notes that they still require a dark room), but once they are, you could have all of your needs served with a projector and keyboard. And if apps simply become cloud portals, the phone could become the only device we use to access our stored data, CALR programs, or whatever. Something to chew on as we consider the emergence of web-tablets.
Josh notes that the interview was good enough to break it into several segments. I’m looking forward to the rest.
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