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Only that batteries don't tend to obey Moore's law. All other being equal, a smaller battery means not only lower BOM but also more freedom in physical desings
by hcho 16y ago
Only that batteries don't tend to obey Moore's law. All other being equal, a smaller battery means not only lower BOM but also more freedom in physical desings of the devices.Not everyone likes to have a device size of a brick.
The UI offerings of manufacturers are converging to not being a differentiator. When that point is reached the war will go on how well your software manages the limited resources.
- wvenable 16y ago> Only that batteries don't tend to obey Moore's law. My current smartphone is massively more powerful than my old Symbian smartphone and gets better battery life as well (and is smaller). We've seen massive gains in the power consumption of components inside computers and phones. > When that point is reached the war will go on how well your software manages the limited resources. That's never been true. Nokia is losing the smartphone market to a company that ported their desktop OS to a phone! The original Palm OS is no more because it was designed for devices of the day, not for devices of the future. What is considered "limited resources" changes daily and it doesn't matter how well your OS handles them if nobody bothers to write software for it.