Toby's story

Toby travels weekly for work. He flies to distant locations, conducts his business, and often returns home for the weekend. Occasionally, he might even be required to stay for extended time periods without returning home. To conduct company business, Toby relies on a number of vital devices: his laptop, a company-based server, his smartphone, and his personal tablet. Each device is useful for completing specific tasks. On his laptop, for example, he completes the most complex tasks, such as creating or modifying company documents. Toby uses his home-based server to run power-hungry applications, which his laptop is incapable of running. Toby's tablet is useful as a way of bringing up documents for easy perusal and sharing; Toby might, for instance, bring up an attachment from an e-mail and hand the tablet to a colleague for consideration.

Toby's smartphone may be his most important device. In the modern mobile world, Toby uses his smartphone for e-mail, texting, chatting, updating...