>Scanned the whole article, still don't know what "ambient computing" is.
As TFA says:
"In this emerging world, the focus starts to move away from any individual device towards an environment where your services and software are available wherever you need them. We call this ambient computing".
In other words, going from devices as siloes you use one at a time, each with each own apps, accounts, data, and so on, into using a plethora of devices that play together, can run appropriate versions of the same apps, give you access to your data from wherever you are, switch your workflow from one to another, and so on.
So like multi-platform apps + cloud storage + what Apple calls "Handoff / Continuity" or MS calls "Timeline" + IoT...
As TFA says:
"In this emerging world, the focus starts to move away from any individual device towards an environment where your services and software are available wherever you need them. We call this ambient computing".
In other words, going from devices as siloes you use one at a time, each with each own apps, accounts, data, and so on, into using a plethora of devices that play together, can run appropriate versions of the same apps, give you access to your data from wherever you are, switch your workflow from one to another, and so on.
So like multi-platform apps + cloud storage + what Apple calls "Handoff / Continuity" or MS calls "Timeline" + IoT...