Nicholas Carr’s mobile demands are pretty straightforward: he wants a Google cloud behind his iPhone.  In a piece entitled “Google, Apple and the future of mobile computing” he puts forward a persuasive argument for why the next stage in ultraportable technology will build upon the established relationship between the search giant and Cupertino, with Apple building the gadgets and the UI’s that people so adore while Google lends its weight to the mainframe serving everything up in the background.

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