Edge and mobile computing
Throughout this book we have discussed various Edge devices such as POS terminals, intelligent cameras, robots, and cars. We’ve never really used smartphones as an example of an Edge device. This oversight is somewhat deliberate, for two reasons:
- Both Apple and Android smartphones are designed to assume they are possessed by a single person and managed by that person. That person decides what Apps to include on their phone. Both the Apple and Android smart phone ecosystem is geared to the idea that you go to an online store – either the AppStore or PlayStore, for example – and choose your Apps. You then set those Apps up the way you want to use them. Updates to the Apps or OS are your responsibility to keep up with. Even with automated updates turned on, or if you are working with a corporate-managed program that uses a Mobile Device Manager for automating the security and provisioning of the phone, some amount of user intervention...
