Interesting response, thank you. Those mirrorless camera-phone things you linked look like Microsoft tablets before iPads came. Microsoft had the idea, just no

Interesting response, thank you. Those mirrorless camera-phone things you linked look like Microsoft tablets before iPads came. Microsoft had the idea, just not the execution chops, for many many years. It's only confirming my conviction that it is an unbelievably potent idea, that needs a few billion poured into it to do it right. Regarding PC vs tablet vs phone - that is not what I'm thinking at all. It is not a matter of dummies wanting OSes for 7 year olds as their primary device, it's that computation will not be done on your hardware, it'll be displayed on your hardware aka pretty lcd/oled screen. Cameras are the one exception to this rule which is why I predict it'll be regular thin screens with super fast internet, and more bulky (size of current iPhones) with replaceable lens and specialized GPUs for processing raw camera input. This is more obvious with games - instead of everyone having a 2k gaming rig, everyone will have a 200$ monitor with a fast internet connection, connecting to super-computers run by Google. It's basically Unix multi-user, except now done via 'the cloud'. That's the future - and Apple has no place in it with its 30% profit margins on hardware. I think Apple knows it in the long term too, which is why they're slowly and awfully, getting into content aka games and tv.