“Bill and Steve talk about their biggest regrets; what excites and surprises them in technology today; mobile devices; and what they feel computing will be like in five years.”
In a part of speech for D5, Bill and Steve mentions really usable applications on the mobile client and “cloud” of services is a really good marriage.
Those ideas are generally shapes by Google’s successful move to mobile space by some simple phone apps like gmaps and gmail. Those apps are really cool, Steve mentions that they are even better than PC experience. If you ever use mobile gmail for instance, it is extremely cool and easy to browse your past emails, search your inbox and compose e-mail on the go.
We will be seeing those kind of apps will flourish in the future; Steve Jobs mentions this approach is more powerfull than browser-thin client solution in terms of user experience.
We will also need some design tools to publish rich mobile apps. Announcement of Smartface Designer by Mobinex, a rapid authoring tool which enables creating rich mobile apps in a visual programming environment, is a good move to this space.
