All agree that broadband is the main selling-point, and mobility just an added extra.
As Messrs Kaplan and Schulhofer-Wohl point out, mobility has fallen for manufacturers, where jobs are more dispersed, as well as for service-sector workers.
New York's Tenement House Museum now refers to its historic building, tellingly, not as slum housing but as an "urban log cabin"--a starting point for upward mobility.
While some point to the increased mobility of the smaller tablets, Jobs also downplayed this advantage.
Case in point, Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility, the handset business of the former Motorola.
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Everyone is going to face mobility challenges at some point.
The basic point is, as noted, that labour mobility in the US has fallen in recent decades.
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We have built our society around the mobility provided by cars, to the point where it is tough to live in most places in America without one.
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Apple proves the point that a computer company can become a high-mobility company.
Intel, ever a bellwether of the tech industry, still maintains high margins, but growth has clearly slowed, and, given increased competition, particularly from high-mobility devices, margins are likely to decline from this point on.
"I did not think at that point she would die but I did think it would be difficult for her to regain mobility, " he said.
Motorola Mobility is more akin to RIM both in terms of expected 2011 unit sales and the average price point of those sales.
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