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The mainframe in your pocket that is running like a thin client because everything is in the cloud now. :(
by JohnJamesRambo 4y ago
The mainframe in your pocket that is running like a thin client because everything is in the cloud now. :(
- masswerk 4y agoThat's the funny thing: we're running mainframes to access a centralized mainframe – terminal model.
- vbezhenar 4y agoI think that's not really true. Thin client handles input and output. Nowadays even websites can work offline on client device. There're plenty of mobile apps which work offline. I don't want to pay for mobile Internet, so my phone works in offline mode usually. I have offline books, offline maps, offline docs and so on. Modern phones are extremely powerful with very fast CPUs and large amounts of RAM. It would be a waste to use them as thin clients.
- PhasmaFelis 4y agoI think we're moving that way, though. The more ubiquitous high-speed wireless internet gets, the more appealing it sounds to move your computing to a central repository. Stadia was popular and successful even if it didn't show a fat enough profit curve for Google. All this is great as far as it goes, but I do worry that it's gonna be an excuse, in 10 or 20 years, to start moving basically everything into the cloud, where it can be easily monitored.
- kuu 4y ago> Stadia was popular and successful [Citation needed]