and the computer. the most bizarre thing about the phone is people never use the phones to talk on anymore but they use them for everything else. we have seen an explosion in growth rates in mobile computing, mobile applications. if you go to startups in our industry, the startups are building applications for iphone and android phones, those are the big two and releasing on them first. i the phones know where they are and highly personalized and with opt in they can help you out, make suggestions, where should i go, what should i do? what should i learn? how long will it take for me to get home? will there be a traffic jam this afternoon because of the baseball game? these are useful things in our world. what does it mean for a company like intel whose chips have been dominant in pcs or a company like apple which has used a closed, very elegant system? how do you think the landscape
become the computer because once you have connectivity and it can process data. people never use the phones to actually talk on them any more. they use them for everything else. what we ve seen is an explosion in growth rates in mobile computing, mobile surge, mobile applicati applications. if you go to start ups in our industry, the startps are all building applications for iphones and android phones and all releasing on them first and they do interesting things. the phones, remember, know where they are and they tend to be highly personalized and with opt in they can help you out. they can make suggestions. where should i go? what should i do, what should i learn? they can make predictions. how long will it take for me to get home because of traffic? will there be a traffic jam this afternoon because of the baseball game? these are very useful things in our world. what does it mean for a company like intel whose trips have been dominant in pcs or
business this morning. we go live to zurich. good morning, carolyn. good morning to you. we saw a rather uncharacteristic move by apple yesterday. the company announced it will ease restrictions for building applications for its iphones, and the ipad. of course that is paving the way for a third party company like adobe to finally create software for apple s devices, but you may well remember that just a couple of months ago, co steve jobs criticized adobe s flash technology as unreliable. it looks like apple is feeling the heat from an ongoing antitrust matter and feeling pressure from google s android.