Video: Smartphones: Is there any innovation left?
Updated 1/3/2019: With Apple's recent revenue miss and the stock fall, this discussion from last April is particularly appropriate.[1]
Welcome to what I hope is the first of a regular series of virtual roundtable discussions about important questions facing the future of technology. In this installment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes[2], Jason Perlow[3], and I look at where we're going with smartphones[4].
Jason's comment from April[5] -- "We have almost certainly reached peak smartphone OS" -- got me thinking about this subject. I was curious whether that could be true. That gave the accompanying video our starting point.
Read also: Apple announces (Product)Red iPhone 8, 8 Plus[6]
Here are some of the key thoughts you'll see discussed in more depth in the video:
Paranoia will destroy us
Why Chinese tech isn't spying on Americans [7]
The notion that the Chinese government would spy on corporations and our agencies with electronic devices manufactured by Chinese companies is not only absurd but would be catastrophic to furthering their ambitions in world trade.
Does innovation need the cloud?
It's all happening in the cloud. All innovation needs the cloud[9]. There are definitely apps -- for example, biometric systems, smart room planners, exercise trackers, and food managers -- that have a long way to go until they're as useful as they can be, and all those apps rely on cloud-based data and AI.