Are iPhone and Air the Beginning of the End?

Dana Gardner has published a story with the above title on MacNewsWorld. She leads off with “There’s only about two to three more years left in the client hardware innovation business before the end-points go pure commodity. Yep, that’s right, the iPhone and the Air are the beginning of the end, just because there’s not too much more innovation needed down there in the hardware space.”

While I put the above right up there with “we will never need more than 64K of RAM” and what I heard at a user group meeting once: “There will never be a need for DVD size media.” She does make some interesting points.

She basically proposes that future innovation will come more from software than hardware. She also makes her case better than I could.

Read the full article here.