Mobile Internet Devices and the Cloud
John W. Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome · 2017
This chapter describes the mobile smartphones platforms, their operating systems, virtualization of these platforms, mobile collaboration applications, and future trends. Ubuntu mobile internet device edition is designed specifically for mobile internet devices. Mobile users deal with office documents on a daily basis. The real value of cloud computing is that it makes software and data available transparently and everywhere—include the mobile environment. Consumers of cloud computing services purchase computing capacity on demand and need not be concerned with the underlying technologies used to achieve server capabilities. The mobile operating system as an extension to the cloud is emerging as a value-added alternative to sophisticated and complex operating systems such as Windows. Cloud computing for mobile devices is taking off with the expansion of high-speed wireless networks around the world. Cloud computing is in a period of strong growth, but cloud technology is still somewhat immature and will take another few years to mature.