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> 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
by 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 agoAnd 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 agoThe 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.