Man do I agree with you. I think the disconnect is that consumer tablet/mobile devices lack the ability to be views for our desktops. PCs are powerful enough to

Man do I agree with you. I think the disconnect is that consumer tablet/mobile devices lack the ability to be views for our desktops. PCs are powerful enough to be the locus of consumer computing; we just need a good architecture to make them so. Not to mention: when it comes to real productivity, you can't beat the desktop. It isn't the profitable sector for manufacturers, but it's still the productivity toolset. We just need to make them exciting to the overall ecosystem. This is one way WebRTC will be really useful (since, IMO, consumer IT is mostly Web or mobile apps). With signalling services in place, we'll be able to run hosts from desktops without registering domain names or establishing fixed IPs. The user-centric, desktop-hosted systems can grow out of that.