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>But nobody, and I mean nobody, wants to use a desktop computer the way they use a tablet or a phone. That's not quite what's on offer. It's more like the abil

by luxpir 10y ago

>But nobody, and I mean nobody, wants to use a desktop computer the way they use a tablet or a phone. That's not quite what's on offer. It's more like the ability to plug your phone into a monitor and carry on working. No longer carrying a laptop around (once tablets/phones are at CPU horsepower parity for office work). So yeah, it's not working backwards like you suggest, it's making the phone/tablet more like a desktop (add mice, keyboards, screens etc.) One mobile device is quite likely all we'll need in the near future, not three separates. 2-in-1 laptops are already selling quite well as MS gets its own convergence efforts underway. Apple are actually lagging in this field and kudos to Ubuntu for steering the ship in an innovative/inevitable direction.

mrighele 10y ago
> It's more like the ability to plug your phone into a monitor and carry on working. Do I really need a phone to do this ? As long as I can reach the same data I don't really care if I'm on the same device where I started working on it. In fact the software I want to use when I am in front of a monitor is much different than the one I have on my phone, and I am not talking only about user interface, but also features. Cpu power is getting cheaper and in smaller form factors. I suspect that instead of connecting our phones to the display devices, those devices will be powerful enough that we won't need any integration. And if I really want something portable, I will be able to "add a cpu" with an external stick (like Intel Compute Stick, but cheaper e/o smaller).
- bandrami 10y ago
  And if I really want something portable, I will be able to "add a cpu" with an external stick I'd say it's even more likely that anything computationally expensive won't be done in the same room with you to begin with 10 years from now, but will be done by an anonymous compute node in a datacenter that you're leasing for the 5 seconds you're using it.
  - magila 10y ago
    The problem is that model doesn't work very well for probably the most common computationally intensive task consumers do: games. It also doesn't work well with tasks involving non-trivial datasets. If you've got say 20GB of video from a Gopro you want to transcode, shipping it out to a datacenter is going to be really painful.

by luxpir 10y ago

mrighele 10y ago

> It's more like the ability to plug your phone into a monitor and carry on working. Do I really need a phone to do this ? As long as I can reach the same data I don't really care if I'm on the same device where I started working on it. In fact the software I want to use when I am in front of a monitor is much different than the one I have on my phone, and I am not talking only about user interface, but also features. Cpu power is getting cheaper and in smaller form factors. I suspect that instead of connecting our phones to the display devices, those devices will be powerful enough that we won't need any integration. And if I really want something portable, I will be able to "add a cpu" with an external stick (like Intel Compute Stick, but cheaper e/o smaller).

bandrami 10y ago
And if I really want something portable, I will be able to "add a cpu" with an external stick I'd say it's even more likely that anything computationally expensive won't be done in the same room with you to begin with 10 years from now, but will be done by an anonymous compute node in a datacenter that you're leasing for the 5 seconds you're using it.
- magila 10y ago
  The problem is that model doesn't work very well for probably the most common computationally intensive task consumers do: games. It also doesn't work well with tasks involving non-trivial datasets. If you've got say 20GB of video from a Gopro you want to transcode, shipping it out to a datacenter is going to be really painful.