I think this is a flawed way of looking at it. I can have a nice i7 w/ 32GB of RAM on my desktop, but it's a pretty terrible computer for writing documents, pr

I think this is a flawed way of looking at it. I can have a nice i7 w/ 32GB of RAM on my desktop, but it's a pretty terrible computer for writing documents, programming, media consumption compared to my phone because, well, it doesn't have a screen at all. The computer and the screen are different things. There exists ways to use your phone on a larger screen, at which point the operating system becomes your sole bottleneck. The reality is our phones are very powerful computers, intentionally limited to do things specific for mobile use. They could (and probably will) be opened up as time goes on to become more traditional computers as well. A few players toyed with the idea clumsily in the last few years, Motorola being the most noteworthy.