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It won't be long before most people have only one computing device: a very powerful smartphone. When used as a mobile device, the interface looks like iPhone/Me
by ericdschmidt 15y ago
It won't be long before most people have only one computing device: a very powerful smartphone. When used as a mobile device, the interface looks like iPhone/Metro. When you are at your desk, you dock it and the interface that pops up on your 30 inch monitor is like Windows 7 (WIMP). And you can also dock it in a range of shells (for lack of a better word) from a 7-inch tablet (touchscreen UI) to a 17-inch laptop (WIMP UI). All these devices you are docking to are just relatively cheap shells. All your data and processing power is on the smartphone. In fact, even the smartphone will be just a shell, and the computer will be like a large SD card.
- r00fus 15y agoI actually prefer the more logical conclusion to this thread: Sun's SunRay concept... everything is in the network (cloud), you use key(s) to access/control them. However, I'd extend that and say that along with the "key" is a smartphone that can also (in a limited fashion) view/manipulate your cloud data and send/receive messages. The important thing to recognize is that there will always be need for "more and faster" than a smartphone will be capable of providing.
- ericdschmidt 15y agore: your last sentence -- agree, but I suspect most people will not need that much power
- cellis 15y ago2 things will decide when/whether this is possible: 1) The rate at which cooling tech increases; How can you keep a miniature multicore cpu cool enough to process gigantic displays? 2) Power efficiency of the miniature multicore cpus.