There is one fallacy here: The 'thin' mobile client as being the future. Even though the world has moved towards thin client in the form of web clients, I firmly believe that the tides will turn - either by having the browser becoming a thick client itself (with local storage, lots of local logic) or by reintroducing native clients again - for which Containerization could play an essential role.

Imagine if we'd have a standardized container format on top of Linux, the BSDs including OSX and Windows with Cygwin - hello cross platform client applications with a single installer. Apple and Microsoft could integrate container technology in their AppStores and we could submit the same package everywhere.