As all eyes turn to the new iphone 2, its worth considering the year 1985 for Apple, when windows started its road to full desktop dominance(market share) (GUI experience is another story), and how we should consider how sometimes that history does have a tendency to go full circle and show itself albeit in a different guise.
Fast forward 2018; and what will be the mobile o/s which dominates? Will Androids open standard win out over the propriety route which Apple seems to going?
This great mid-nineties documentary by Robert X Cringely - Triumph of the Nerds: How the PC changed the World, does seem echo what seems to be currently happening in the mobile space albeit circa 2009 , and how all this will effect online travel will of course be monumental.
I will be looking at the current apps which exist for travel on Android/Apple iphone in my next post.
In the meantime I remember seeing some of this video many years ago, which for me at the time was truly inspiring, and how the future of telephony combined with computers could create a truly mobile experience, maybe the sounds of 2018 will have echoes of this..
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