Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPad on January 27, 2010, in San Francisco. When I hustled out of CNET headquarters in San Francisco on May 26, 2010, and slipped into a rental car with two of my co-workers to head to a meeting across the Bay, one of them slipped me a copy of The Wall Street Journal and pointed to a headline that announced Apple had passed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable tech company. "What do you think of that?" she said. "Unreal," I responded, shaking my head. Just over a decade earlier, Apple had nearly been on its deathbed and needed a $150 million investment from Microsoft simply to stay alive. But then the iPhone arrived in 2007, and Apple rewrote the playbook on the mobile revolution.

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Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Were you impressed with the mobile trends last year? Between Pokemon Go's AR, the chatbot craze, Amazon Echo's AI and Facebook Live's live streaming taking over, there was a lot going on.

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection." Over the last couple of years, I have seen a lot of handwringing among the Technorati about how innovation is dead and that, from now on, there will only be boring iteration. The Mobile Revolution caused a dynamic shift in the way people interact with computers in ways that we can both measure … and have no idea it is even taking place. Smartphones gave rise to the apps economy and endless opportunity. But, as all cycles do, the luster of the Mobile Revolution is beginning to fizz out. It's incredibly difficult to build a new app and become a success, smartphones have become commodities and the cloud is so ubiquitous that people hardly give it a second thought anymore.

Intel announced last month that it is laying off 11 percent of its workforce. As sales of personal computers decline, the company plans to shift its business to cloud computing. Intel announced last month that it is laying off 11 percent of its workforce. As sales of personal computers decline, the company plans to shift its business to cloud computing. Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution.