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I understand the desire to push computation to a single device, but I don’t agree with it. It is very rare for a device that does ‘everything’ to do anything ‘
by MobileVet 8y ago
I understand the desire to push computation to a single device, but I don’t agree with it. It is very rare for a device that does ‘everything’ to do anything ‘well.’
In software, Eclipse is the perfect counter argument. It does nothing well, imho. Sketch is the opposite, singular focus = quality experience.
My phone serves a purpose and I expect apps to be bite sized experiences and quick data points.
My computer serves a completely different purpose. The applications should be equally focused on that purpose
- agumonkey 8y agoI think it's also a bit (just a bit) due to our need to focus on a single domain. It's rare to have your brain ready to navigate the mathematical realm of all universal abstractions in a single setting (can happen but not common for the mere mortal I suppose). Meanwhile people are doing https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/02/14/the-spudwrite-single-purpose-user-device-for-creating-writing-made-with-e-paper-mbed-and-stm32f401-cortex-m4/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/02/14/the-spudwrite-single-pu... in their backyard.. says something