Form factor nowadays seems to be going wild. Ever since the mobile revolution started, manufacturers have been trying out every form factor and seeing what sticks with consumers. A few interesting results of this are attempts to combine devices, like turning a tablet into a netbook or a phone docking into a laptop. One of the things about the future of mobility is that it is highly unpredictable.
To add an example of this, a very unknown fact about Apple is that they actually started working on the iPad years before the iPhone. It suddenly hit Steve one day that the application of a mobile OS X was perfect for a phone, so he ordered the iPad project shelved and made iPhone the top priority. Nowadays, the future of Apple products looks like they are moving away from the operating system and more into mobility. Predictions say that OS X will begin functioning more and more like the iPad, and a lot of the features in OS X Lion and Mountain Lion are starting to show this foundation.
I want to take some time to lay out some ideas about the future of mobility and where I think it is heading. Form factor plays a huge part in this as people become more and more disconnected from the desktop and live more and more in a cellular world.
