It’s not a pendulum, the industry is always moving towards two goals: miniaturization (for portability) and centralization (for efficiency). Sometimes it appea

It’s not a pendulum, the industry is always moving towards two goals: miniaturization (for portability) and centralization (for efficiency). Sometimes it appears to go “backwards” towards decentralization when there’s a shift in form factor. This is just to avoid getting stuck at a local optimum. Eventually we’ll get to the global optimum where everything’s centralized but available from everywhere.