- The personal computer and its associated technologies are
an example of an industry sector which follows these
life-cycles
-
Browsers sit at the top level in the PC technology stack
-
hardware layer
- Moore's law [
E] continues to drive improvements
-
operating system layer
- Windows [E]
is now a commodity OS
-
network layer
-
application layer
- HTML [
A2,
W7] now mature technology
- Browser has now passed the 'good enough' [I] stage for most consumers