With Bill gone, and speculation about Steve’s health, does the industry know where it’s gonna go..?

I’ve been giving this one a lot of thought, and I’m certain that I’m gonna tweak the heck out of this article before the final version is posted; but I have to ask the question: with Bill gone last week and Steve’s health in question, does the computer and computing industry know where it’s going?  I’m not entirely certain.  What’s worse is I think many of us are afraid to find out…

I’m 42 years old (meaning I was born in 1965). I have grown up in the computer era.  We’ve gone from punch cards to reel tape, main frames to minis, and Commodore/Atari to today’s desktop PC’s, all in the span of my life time.  Kids…?  That really isn’t a lot of time to have come as far as we have.  What’s even more interesting, we have just a handful of people to thank for the drive and innovation that got us here.  Two of them are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

I’m not going to go through what each man has accomplished in the course of their careers.  If you want to see stuff like that, take a trip to C-Net or ZDNet, and then come back. I’m certain they have articles that do that kind of chronological dance down memory lane. We’re going to see articles like that ad-nauseam.  What I’m more interested in and concerned about is the future of computing now that the Era is ending.

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I wanted to get this out before the keynote, otherwise, its meaningless. I’ve been stalking, uh, I mean following, yeah…following… a number of people on Twitter that are “in the biz.”  Leo LaPorte, John Devorak, and Molly Wood of C-Net’s Buzz Out Loud Podcast, are but a few of the people that I follow on a daily basis. (Molly, BTW, is an absolute HOOT!  LOVE the podcast!)

Anyway, I’m at my computer last night, writing a few columns (check back in a few days for the first to post), and I got a TWEET from Molly Wood on the new 3G iPhone.  According to some of her sources, the 3G iPhone WILL have the following features:

• GPS
• 3G (obviously)
• 32GB of Storage
• A $300 price tag

 

According to her sources, it should hit general availability in 2 weeks.  I know that I will be sitting ont he giddy-up waiting for all of the news, as well as the ability to buy one of these guys as soon as they are available. I wonder how long I will actually have to wait; or if Apple is going to insure that there’s enough of these puppies available that anyone that wants one is going to be able to get one?

I wonder if I should get in line now..?