David Sparks:
As the analogy goes, the desktop PCs are the trucks and the emerging classes of tablets and pocket computing devices, such as iPhones, are the cars. When he made the analogy, it made a lot of sense to me but I felt like it was still something pretty distant into the future. I don’t think that’s the case anymore. Looking at my new iPhone, it has a 64 bit processor and is more powerful than anything I could’ve imagined just a few years ago. Moreover, software developers are getting smarter about ways to implement these touch devices in a way that’s quick, efficient, and just better than a traditional PC.
For geeks and professionals, there are still many tasks an iOS device isn’t good at. And yet, when you think about the fact that just three years ago stuff like this, this, or this didn’t exist, I do believe, like David, that Jobs was absolutely right in his prediction.