DISQUS

jeffsonstein · 1 year ago

I think you have pointed to an important point, where you say "It also takes coddling and rewarding of a vast development community to pick you ahead of all others." The current tug-of-war between Apple, with their desire to establish a form of "walled garden" controlling development, and the general-purpose computing developers is a losing proposition for Apple in the intermediate- and long-term.

Old-fashioned thinking like this alienates developers, and it ignores the shift to general-purpose mobile devices which is going on.

jeffs

Rishabh Mishra (possible248) · 1 year ago

I am probably biased, but I think that the iPhone is going to be obsolete and replaced by something else rather quickly now that more and more developers are catching on to the idea that innovation in the area of user interfaces can make popular products.

awilensky · 1 year ago

I can give you a glimpse, because in 2006-7, I had unprecedented access to a top mobile phone and network services R&D lab. What they disclosed in their road maps and prototypes is, not surprisingly, hardly guessed at today - the tech press is so nearsighted!

But if I disclosed to you what they showed me, you would say, "of course"! Why didn't we think of that!

I would take too long to detail what I saw, and a portion is under NDA for another 120 days, but I can say this, and fill in the details on my blog in a few months.

Let's say you pocket internet phone device had the computational power of a dual socket, 8 core desktop machine? Lets say it had 4GB of ram, and 128 GB of NV storage.

When you get to office, home, or a remote location for work or play, the device lights up and connects to a monitor, keyboard etc. - all wireless.

Let's further say that it will be able to run, via emulation, any popular program from the major 3 OS families.

Stay tuned.

gregorylent · 1 year ago

nice expansion of the article. a small everything machine sounds right to me

Shawn K · 1 year ago

Great post, very thought provoking.

friarminor · 1 year ago

Browser phone with built in connectivity....

booboo · 1 year ago

just checking out those wicked disqus comments