>>>>needs perhaps only one big windfall, like perhaps a well architected game runtime across mobile and pc done in Xamarin.
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>>So where is it?
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>>I was taught that in science, "the animal is always right" meaning that credible theories do not trump what actually happens. The current reality that the market is not flooded with no brainer apps whih tells me that there's lots of promising and theorising but where's the beef. When it happens it'll be quick IMHO.

not on the horizon. but the speed of topsy-turving twice first via iOS then via Android in less then a decade should keep even trend followers on their toes