He did not detail why so much attention would be devoted to the iPad, only noting that Apple has been getting enough praise lately. But that was only one element of what he called a crossroads in technology that will occur in hardware this year. Some elements are less surprising, including the emergence of the mobile phone as the major terminal for computing. The others include true parallelism utilizing multi-core processers, along with in-memory databases. The prediction about mobile devices is not surprising. It has been observed before that European technology users are unlikely to carry laptops since they have adopted phones as the preferred device. A presentation to editors last year by Pervasive Software indicated that true parallel processing on multi-core processing was just starting to arrive then, with the ability of software to address multiple cores as a single processor.