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Are "boxes" really dying though? Android shipped 1 billion devices in 2014 [1]. That's a lot of market for a standardized bus with lots of processes on a single
by mmastrac 10y ago
Are "boxes" really dying though? Android shipped 1 billion devices in 2014 [1]. That's a lot of market for a standardized bus with lots of processes on a single box. I don't see that changing any time in the next five years, and maybe beyond.
Linux is way too popular to not consider all the use cases. And "interesting" is not a good yardstick for where effort should be spent.
[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/android-shipments-exceed-1-billion-for-first-time-in-2014/ http://www.cnet.com/news/android-shipments-exceed-1-billion-...
- api 10y agoToday's mobile devices are mostly dumb terminals for the cloud. It's a portable always on VT100 for the 21st century. Web sites and apps are like giant VT macros. All the interesting stuff is elsewhere. As they get more powerful I could see apps doing more interesting things locally, but in doing this they will mostly be talking to distributed systems over a network. (E.g. peer to peer net in apps.) The last bastion of the box is PC, but that is also a mature and stagnant platform whose use cases are mostly served by what is already there.