Desktops to give way to smartphones in 3yrs: Google

NEW TORK, USA: Echoing on the lines of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Google Europe boss John Herlihy said that desktops will cease to be relevant within three years and give way to smartphones, as more and more people rely on the latter, says a report in Silicon Republic.

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At the recent GSM Association Mobile World Congress 2010, Schmidt had said that everything the company will do going forward will be through mobile lens, centring on the cloud, computing and connectivity

Herlihy also added that in Japan, most research is done today on smartphones, not PCs. He was speaking at the the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD. He further added that cloud-computing opportunity will make sure that every mobile device will be capable of doing rapid-scale applications.

“Mobile makes the world’s information universally accessible. Because there’s more information and because it will be hard to sift through it all, that’s why search will become more and more important. This will create new opportunities for new entrepreneurs to create new business models – ubiquity first, revenue later,” Herlihy adds.