Mr. Jobs, after all, has almost single-handedly reshaped a stunning range of industries: music, TV, movies, software, cellphones, and cloud computing.
The cheapest cellphone today has enough computing power to become a digital "mattress" and digital bank for the poor.
It is the reason why your cellphone can have more computing power than NASA did when it put a man on the moon.
If you have a fat cellphone, you're compromising on computing power and on visual quality.
Some months after my Singapore encounter, I visited the thriving code-writing communities in Tallinn, Estonia; Reykjavik, Iceland; and Helsinki, Finland, three Nordic cities that were being transformed by advances in cellphones, mobile computing and the Internet.
But with cellphone sales now surpassing the 1 billion mark and computing being done even by non-traditional computers, the company clearly sees the need for expanding beyond its traditional boundaries.
Mr. Engstrom personifies the migration of talent, excitement and investment in computing toward the wireless business as cellphones become more like computers and hand-held computers morph into phones.
The new smartphones, always-on portable Internet devices that are part cellphone, part computer, change the rules of the game in computing because computing speed — at which Intel excelled — is no longer the most important factor.
Instead of using a chip whose roots lie in desktop computing where Intel has its stronghold, Apple used one from the cellphone world.
This model of delivering software, information and entertainment over the Internet to personal computers, cellphones and other devices, sent from huge data centers, is often called "cloud computing".
