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I do have a vision of the near future when your hardware fades in significance. For example, very few people discuss what brand or type of toaster you own ("Oooh, four slots and fits a bagel!"). Yeah, there are exceptions but it is an appliance. The application of Moore's Law is rapidly bringing us to the same point in just a few years with computational power.
Maybe we'll still bicker over OS's but I expect that to die as computational power allows more mutable interfaces strictly through emulation (no dedicated firmware). I suppose we'll be bickering about which emulation or overlay is best. But I also expect there will be as much investment required to check out the "other side" as there is today. The cost of converting my software far exceeds the cost of the hardware.
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