Google’s head of European online sales, John Herlihy, recently prognosticated that in three years, “desktops will be irrelevant,” and everyone will work on mobile devices and store their data in the Internet “cloud.” That would be good news for Google, but what about you? Would privacy concerns, limitations of mobile widgets and web apps or other issues keep you tethered to your desktop, or are you ready to launch yourself into the clouds?

In three years desktops will be irrelevant – Google sales chief [Silicon Republic]

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