Mobile – A New Era of Computing – How has it turned out for you?


As part of my day job, I read a lot of Analyst reports and they all seem to be talking about Mobile being the new Era of Computing. I’ve been trying to understand what that really means. Yes, I can recognize that we’ve had shifts between the centralized days of Main Frames, to the Client-Server Days of the PC, to the Server based days of the Web, and now we have this Mobile era. Is Mobile, Client-Server Web? Some companies do this, as they use HTML5 and Mobile Web apps, but I don’t think this is what we mean. So I am asking for your help, if Mobile is a truly a new era of computing, we should be able to address the following questions:

  1. How have you changed your computing habits?
  2. Has this changed how you and your customers interact? 
  3. Has this changed your development practices?
  4. What do you see as the longest lasting change?
  5. What change were you expecting that has not occurred?