A report predicted that by 2018 over 50 percent of people will use either a smartphone or a tablet for all online activities.
Gartner said people will gradually move away from the PC as people use smartphnes and tablets more more.
Voice, gesture and other ways of communicating with devices online will be the rule of thumb, while 40 percent of enterprises will use wi-fi as the default connection and Ethernet will go away.
Security built into wi-fi appears to be adequate to the task, said Gartner, after the introduction of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) into the equation.
And there’s more good news. Gartner thinks by 2020 we’ll all be paying less than $100 for smartphone and other devices. Subsidies or sponsorships will also reduce the cost of devices while by 2018 over half of business to enterprise (B2E) mobile apps will be used by business analysts using codeless tools.
