I don't think you would do 'photoshop-style' heavy editing on mobile. Instagram-like filters or crops run fine and don't need that much. It won't add seconds to

I don't think you would do 'photoshop-style' heavy editing on mobile. Instagram-like filters or crops run fine and don't need that much. It won't add seconds to the processing if you use a low-grade $25 phone, it will probably just add something like a few milliseconds. The first sentence of the quote, however, is ridiculous. The OS doesn't "live mostly in the cloud". The OS and default apps are installed on the phone and don't need internet to run, they live on the phone. Web technologies != cloud. I guess you can't expect technical details to be right when you're talking to some non-technical guy ("Wayne Lam, senior analyst for consumer and communications at IHS").