Touchscreen technology is helping Apple snatch a greater share of the smartphone market. It is also altering the way devices and applications are designed
Once upon a time the microprocessor used to be the centre of the computing universe. Consumers reserved the largest chunk of their PC budgets to buy the fastest chips. But in today’s most popular computing device — the mobile phone — the processor has become a commodity component, lacking both consumer awareness and pricing power.
(This story appears in the 21 May, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)