... not so much about mobility. The iPhone and the iPad brought user experience innovations to the computer industry, and these devices just happened to be mobile. E.g. you are seeing something similar with the Xbox, where it also has introduced user experience innovations in the form of UI updates, the Kinect, and better, sleeker consoles, and is also selling well against industry trends. The PC merely needs the same thing done to it, for it to experience a renaissance. If a person has e.g. a 24" touch screen all-in-one with Windows 8 and metro apps, which has the capability and horsepower to drive immersive experiences greater than an iPad, which solution do you think people will prefer? Most people will look past their iPads to their Windows 8 all-in-ones, because of the larger screen and overall better user experience.
Windows 8 can allow PCs to take back the modern computing limelight, by allowing users to not only have better user experiences than that found on the iPad across a spectrum of devices, but to also retain the utilitarian advantage of the PC over the relatively underpowered iPad. The PC also offers (in the form of modern apps) content providers the ability to provide much more engaging experiences to their customers, allowing them to monetize their services better than what is possible over the web. E.g. digital magazines, stand to make content providers much more money than is possible from their web sites; Facebook stands to expand and retain its customers, with slick metro apps, rather than its cluttered, barely comprehensible system of web pages, that are sometimes a pain to navigate.
All of the above is just on the consumer side. User experience innovations will also cause revolutionary changes in business computing, making business computing more delightful and productive. New solutions will be developed that have never been conceived of before. Therefore the future in computing is not really in mobility, it is more in user experience and supporting services.
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