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What's the point of all that computing power if there's no "killer app" to make use of it? These days the devices that interest me are those that consume littl
by brisance 14y ago
What's the point of all that computing power if there's no "killer app" to make use of it?
These days the devices that interest me are those that consume little power, have perpetual internet connectivity (WiFi or cell tower), and are instant on/off. It has to be portable and durable. Everything else is icing.
- amalag 14y agoAs of the core duo generation, people don't need to upgrade their computers in order to browse the web or use Microsoft Office. Office is the eternal killer app for the masses IMHO (excluding the browser), and it doesn't need the latest generation intel chip. As we know so many apps have moved to the browser.
- noahl 14y agoJust at a guess, really really good speech recognition might be a "killer app" for big, vectorized chips. I haven't tried to implement it, though, so I don't know how much power it would really take. Apple and Google seem to do all right with a little phone CPU.
- api 14y agoAs far as I know, Siri off-loads something to Apple's servers. But maybe I'm mistaken.
- jiggy2011 14y agoYou need something requires low latency as well as power, otherwise it usually makes more sense to offload the extra work onto a server (with the added bonus that it's difficult to pirate something when there is code isn't running on a client machine, e.g the new Sim City). So the most common example would be games, with the new console refresh we might see a bump in technical requirements for PC games in order to keep up.