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These things are all easy to fix. > 1. iOS is not good at multi-tasking which is bread and butter for desktop. Look what happened to Windows 8 which tried to f
by rythie 13y ago
These things are all easy to fix.
> 1. iOS is not good at multi-tasking which is bread and butter for desktop. Look what happened to Windows 8 which tried to forced full screen apps on 24" monitors all the time.
The base of iOS is still the OSX kernel, which is excellent at multitasking. A new UI for multitasking on bigger screens but that is fairly small addition, given that the apps and everything in the stack can already handle this.
2. Phone/pads still don't have necessary RAM to run desktop class applications. Can you imagine running full strength Photoshop on iPad yet?
Disruption doesn't start with the power users, Photoshop is a power user style app, most users don't need anything like this - think more like multiple browsers windows, a chat client, office software etc.
The Sasmung Galaxy Note III comes with 3GB of RAM. The base model Macbook Air comes with 4GB, as does the mini, as does the non-retina MBP. I don't see a big difference in RAM here. With a 64bit ARM chips there's no effective limit to the amount of RAM a phone could have.
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/samsung-galaxy-note-iii-and-lg-optimus-g2-to-come-with-3gb-ram-report-387948 http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/samsung-galaxy-note-iii...
3. Phone/Pads are still far behind in providing large cheap storage compared to similarly priced devices.
Android and iOS phones can talk to USB storage and SD cards anyway (except Apple currently limits this to photos only though it's camera connector). Even without this 64GB is a lot more than many people need, especially if they store content in the cloud, which seems likely in this model of computing. Even within the limitations of most phone's software now, you can use WiFi harddisks which are cheap.
If Apple doesn't do this, someone else will, e.g. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge