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Virtual desktops will open up opportunities of virtual phone operating systems. If you leave your phone at home by accident pick up a "shell" at the grocery sto

by ozfive 8y ago

Virtual desktops will open up opportunities of virtual phone operating systems. If you leave your phone at home by accident pick up a "shell" at the grocery store and sign into your account. When your done with your errands drop it off at the last place you were at, or some other concept. Truly portable number.

honestlyidk 8y ago
no one really wants this. This is not a game changer in purchasing any kind of device.
- theoh 8y ago
  Remote desktop access might be a niche feature, but people do use it (VNC, RDP, X11, etc.) to deal with problems that would be seriously inconvenient to solve otherwise. The biggest barrier to the adoption of remote desktop access apps is probably the fact that the average user can't readily conceptualise what's going on.
Nydhal 8y ago
Until no one actually owns phones and all you have are shared shells that can be picked up anywhere.
- theoh 8y ago
  Unfortunately, as with the idea of batteries for electric cars that can be swapped out at the charging station, there is an incentive to hold onto better units, and quickly return inferior units to the pool. It's a case of Gresham's Law. So the utopia of interchangeable shared units of anything will only be viable if those units are completely indistinguishable. If there's any kind of distribution of quality, the incentives will cause the economy of the system to devolve into hoarding of the better units. One way to work around this is to mandate regular exchange, but that really gets you into the territory of communism. Not necessarily a bad thing in theory or in some vastly different future, but a big change.
  - ozfive 8y ago
    You would have to swap out stock anyway as all physical things degrade with use. It would be a natural culling of devices that would need to be pulled from circulation regardless.This idea doesn't exclude owning your own more powerful device that may have been left at home or a friend's house. You're not interested in the physical object and keeping it for long periods of time. It's a short-term convienince proposition.

by ozfive 8y ago

honestlyidk 8y ago

no one really wants this. This is not a game changer in purchasing any kind of device.

theoh 8y ago
Remote desktop access might be a niche feature, but people do use it (VNC, RDP, X11, etc.) to deal with problems that would be seriously inconvenient to solve otherwise. The biggest barrier to the adoption of remote desktop access apps is probably the fact that the average user can't readily conceptualise what's going on.

Nydhal 8y ago

Until no one actually owns phones and all you have are shared shells that can be picked up anywhere.

theoh 8y ago
Unfortunately, as with the idea of batteries for electric cars that can be swapped out at the charging station, there is an incentive to hold onto better units, and quickly return inferior units to the pool. It's a case of Gresham's Law. So the utopia of interchangeable shared units of anything will only be viable if those units are completely indistinguishable. If there's any kind of distribution of quality, the incentives will cause the economy of the system to devolve into hoarding of the better units. One way to work around this is to mandate regular exchange, but that really gets you into the territory of communism. Not necessarily a bad thing in theory or in some vastly different future, but a big change.
- ozfive 8y ago
  You would have to swap out stock anyway as all physical things degrade with use. It would be a natural culling of devices that would need to be pulled from circulation regardless.This idea doesn't exclude owning your own more powerful device that may have been left at home or a friend's house. You're not interested in the physical object and keeping it for long periods of time. It's a short-term convienince proposition.