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I admit that you are completely correct about the trend towards increasing integration. Its possible that as someone who grew up in the PC era I struggle to emb

by dman 12y ago

I admit that you are completely correct about the trend towards increasing integration. Its possible that as someone who grew up in the PC era I struggle to embrace the concept of a computing device with few degrees of freedom.

dogma1138 12y ago
I got that too, i think that's where more of my resentment to Apple devices comes from (Why pay twice the prices for inferior hardware). But considering the current trend and the fact that your data and software becoming more and more detached from the device you use you get a different kind of freedom. Considering that for virtually every discrete software today there is a cloud service, and eventually even streaming games trough the cloud (or your local network) will become technically viable why should you care whats inside your device? The only thing it will do is some basic processing and input/output it will become nothing more than a terminal. And where the majority of the computation will be at your house or in the "cloud" it doesn't matter. Heck I'm pretty sure that NVIDIA for example is already preparing for the future in which it can't sell graphic cards, at best it will be able to license it's technology. That's why in my opinion they are working on their streaming technology so badly, I mean today there is absolutely no freaking reason to stream Call of Duty onto a tablet but in 2-3 years? That will probably be the default setting whether they sell you some game streaming box which you can buy that can run 3-4 games at the time onto multiple devices or sell their hardware in bulk it to who ever decides to revive OnLine or take on Playcast. I for one can't wait for the time in which i will be completely free to choose which ever device i want because for all intents and purposes they'll do exactly the same thing and that is connect me to my data and applications. I'm sick of benchmarks, reviews, and constant upgrades, sick of throwing money down the toilet just to have a better screen or a faster CPU.
- dman 12y ago
  In my opinion the software story and the data access story could be a lot better in the new integrated world. 1. Monoculture of a single language per platform needs to go away. Its wasteful in terms of programmer productivity. 2. The data layer needs to be disjointed from the applications completely. Access to this data needs to be available on a system wide basis. 3. Power users frequently want to access their data programmatically. More attention needs to be paid to these use cases. 4. The bottom level cross application data layer needs to be based on some open standard allowing people to trivially get data in / out of the ecosystem via some scripts / programs / tools. 5. Applications need to be extensible by the end user.

by dman 12y ago

dogma1138 12y ago

I got that too, i think that's where more of my resentment to Apple devices comes from (Why pay twice the prices for inferior hardware). But considering the current trend and the fact that your data and software becoming more and more detached from the device you use you get a different kind of freedom. Considering that for virtually every discrete software today there is a cloud service, and eventually even streaming games trough the cloud (or your local network) will become technically viable why should you care whats inside your device? The only thing it will do is some basic processing and input/output it will become nothing more than a terminal. And where the majority of the computation will be at your house or in the "cloud" it doesn't matter. Heck I'm pretty sure that NVIDIA for example is already preparing for the future in which it can't sell graphic cards, at best it will be able to license it's technology. That's why in my opinion they are working on their streaming technology so badly, I mean today there is absolutely no freaking reason to stream Call of Duty onto a tablet but in 2-3 years? That will probably be the default setting whether they sell you some game streaming box which you can buy that can run 3-4 games at the time onto multiple devices or sell their hardware in bulk it to who ever decides to revive OnLine or take on Playcast. I for one can't wait for the time in which i will be completely free to choose which ever device i want because for all intents and purposes they'll do exactly the same thing and that is connect me to my data and applications. I'm sick of benchmarks, reviews, and constant upgrades, sick of throwing money down the toilet just to have a better screen or a faster CPU.

dman 12y ago
In my opinion the software story and the data access story could be a lot better in the new integrated world. 1. Monoculture of a single language per platform needs to go away. Its wasteful in terms of programmer productivity. 2. The data layer needs to be disjointed from the applications completely. Access to this data needs to be available on a system wide basis. 3. Power users frequently want to access their data programmatically. More attention needs to be paid to these use cases. 4. The bottom level cross application data layer needs to be based on some open standard allowing people to trivially get data in / out of the ecosystem via some scripts / programs / tools. 5. Applications need to be extensible by the end user.