Replying to myself here. Everybody seems to be stuck in the past, insisting on differentiating phones and desktops. Smartphones are a relic from last decade.

Replying to myself here. Everybody seems to be stuck in the past, insisting on differentiating phones and desktops. Smartphones are a relic from last decade. They were revolutionary when they arrived, and in a few years completely wiped out not only competing phones but also compact cameras, GPS gadgets and more. Since then not much has changed. Apple invents something and Samsung etc, rushes to ridicule them and then copies the feature. Apple does the same (minus the ridicule). The smartphone innovation for the past 4-5 years has pretty much been limited to a missing headphone jack and a screen notch. Everything else has been incremental upgrades. Still, the first iPhone didn’t have an App Store, and the 3G model had an App Store but no apps in the beginning. And people still bought them. The iPad was ridiculed when it was unveiled, and yet it seems like everybody has a tablet these days. The smart watch was curiosity until Apple launched the Apple Watch, and it was ridiculed for being ugly. Millions of people bought them, and today they’re pretty well underway to disrupting the fitness tracker and health monitoring devices. Bring the right technology along with a developer friendly environment and that could easily happen again if the technology is disruptive enough. I don’t just want a phone that is half bad at showing desktop apps. I want a completely new device. Yes it will (probably) be a phone sized gadget, and you will (probably) be able to make calls from it, but it most likely won’t be 2G, 3G or 4G. It will (probably) be a 5G device that isn’t a phone as we know it, but instead an internet connected device that does everything over the internet. “Desktop” is also outdated. 5G is here, and with it fast internet for everything that has a processor. Screen technology has also advanced to the point that your wallpaper can almost become a monitor today. Point your device at the wall (using existing technology like the U1 chip in current gen iPhones) and suddenly your dining room wall is a 4K Cinema Display being broadcast to from your phone. Your kitchen wall or office wall could become a desktop display, again broadcast to from your phone.