Seems Apple is riding high lately. Their string of successess has only been marred by the leave of absence of Steve Jobs. However, new and exciting things are on the horizon for iOS based devices:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/25/apple_finalizing_wireless_e_wallet_for_iphone_5_ipad_2_report.html
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/24/deutsche_bank_very_positive_on_iphone_trial_no_going_back_to_blackberry.html
http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/21/xbmc-for-apple-tv-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+osxdaily+(OS+X+Daily)
Not to mention the announcement that you can now get an iPhone on Verizon instead of being forced to drink the AT&T kool-aid. Does all this add up to a huge change in the technology world? For sure. Does it mean people will eventually not get desktop computers? Maybe. More likely it means more homes will adopt the home server architecture having one very powerful very high capacity system instead of multiple desktops per household member. Given that RDP and VNC both exist as apps for iOS, it wouldn't take much to turn an iPad or even an iPhone into a terminal. With the right docking station hooked up to the network, a couple monitors, a keyboard, and maybe a mouse (probably not), any iOS device could be turned into a terminal. However, i expect that services that would normally be accessed with direct input to a PC will be configurable using apps.
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