.... apps will be everywhere, from mobile phones to tablets, to touch PCs (including laptops and desktops); set top boxes, consoles, many other consumer devices, tables, walls, countertops, etc. Complex PC software will continue to be with us for personal productivity, and to provide services for the myriad of consumption devices which will be using apps.
So we are now seeing computing shifting back to a new type of client / server paradigm, resulting in the expansion of computing models, including thin client browser apps, apps (which are a lightweight client / services computing model), and connected, complex PC applications (which are a heavyweight client / services computing model) - e.g. MS Office, Adobe software, Autocad.
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