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Still think this makes no sense at all, though I'm happy to be proved wrong. I think the endgame for personal devices is making the electronics invisibly small,
by czr80 13y ago
Still think this makes no sense at all, though I'm happy to be proved wrong. I think the endgame for personal devices is making the electronics invisibly small, which requires more integration, not less.
- mwsherman 13y agoThis might be the key insight. Maybe Phonebloks are misnamed, and will evolve into an ecosystem of wireless devices that might or might not reside in the same package.
- glind72 13y agoI kind of agree, I see a possible move to wearable devices as moving the integrated device out of the device. A speaker and mic in watch allows for voice communication. Google glass like devices for cameras and display with antennas and sensors embedded in clothing. These types of peripherals could be developed by third parties and connect to a core "device" and be somewhat platform independent.
- criley2 13y agoI don't see why I can't have a smartphone as my battery and processor, which connects wirelessly to any number of gadgets that "appear" individual. I don't see why my glasses and wrist computing or whatever all need separate powerful discrete components and radios when they should be parts of a modular whole. It'd be great to have a modular smartphone that sat in my pocket automatically recharging based on movement being converted by my clothing, powering a glasses or contacts based display with say a wrist band or something that tracked hand/finger movements in 3d and allowed me to interact with the 'alternate reality' UI I saw through the display. It doesn't really seem that far away, now.
- czr80 13y agoModular in this sense I can completely see, but this is different from having them designed to physically interlock.