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Google: Desktop irrelevant in 3 years Desktop PCs will be replaced by mobile internet devices, claims Google exec.
Companies that use online video productions may find that they will need to tailor their content for mobile devices rather than desktop PCs in the near future.
Google executive John Herlihy has claimed that the PC's days are numbered as the popularity of internet-connected portable devices such as smartphones increases.
He told an audience at University College Dublin: "In three year's time, desktops will be irrelevant."
However, the migration away from desktop computers could provide opportunities for online businesses, as well as impact search engine optimisation, he claimed.
"Mobile makes the world's information universally accessible. Because there's information and because it will be hard to sift through it all, that's why search will become more and more important.
"This will create new opportunities for new entrepreneurs to create new business models - ubiquity first, revenue later."
A recent study by the Global System for Mobile Communications Association and comScore revealed that 16 million people in the UK spent a total of 4.8 billion minutes online using their mobile phones in December 2009.
Posted by Anthony Roberts
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