Is the mobile age as we know it dead? This is the opinion of Alex Kipman who is committed to mixed reality as the successor

We have recently seen how Samsung has launched the Samsung Galaxy S8. A tremendous terminal but one that lacks that _wow_ effect that we did perceive a few years ago It is something that is also common to more companies such as Apple (the iPhone has been staking for a while) and that in general affects all brands and ecosystems. More power, yes, better camera but... there are no other paths to take.

This has led many to think that we have reached a ceiling, at least for now, in terms of growth possibilities in the outlook mobile.And we say growth in terms of innovations that really provide striking improvements and not evolutions of what we have up to now. A discussion that we have had and that gains more strength with statements like those of Satya Nadella yesterday or those of Alex Kipman a few hours ago.

And this gentleman is neither more nor less than the thinking mind behind the HoloLens and Kinect and to confirm our perceptions it is enough to take some statements that he has given to Bloomberg in which he comes to bury the telephone, at least as we know it.

It may sound strong but according to Kipman the future does not belong to telephones, but to new devices that are yet to come and in which mixed reality will play a fundamental role. It may not be immediate, in fact it is still a green technology to spread quickly, but it won't be long before we see it as commonplace.

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Some statements in which he affirms that although the ordinary user does not perceive it, there is no doubt that the telephone is dead for the future. Something that makes us wonder if this slowdown in the growth scale of recent times can be motivated by the fact that companies are already focusing on other developments for the future."

And if we think about it coldly what drives us to go from an iPhone 6S Plus to an iPhone 7 or from a Galaxy S7 Edge to a Galaxy S8?There are not many differences. In fact, brands are beginning to make a significant effort to show the _software_ that they incorporate as a differential and differentiating factor, seeing that they no longer conquer the user by specifications alone.

Maybe while we read these statements in Redmond, Cupertino or Mountain View to give just three examples, they are already working on those new devices that who knows, could make the out of the pockets and into the sunglasses case…

Via | The Verge