Did I just come out of a 40-day coma? What month is this?
"Android was designed for touch only, and has its hands full winning the tablet wars."
Be careful. I think Steve Jobs might've patented the reality distortion field.
"The Ubuntu desktop sets the standard for ease of use." Compared to what?
"And imagine TVs that become home PCs when you dock your phone: perfect for the emerging market where LTE will be the normal way for new users to connect to the Internet."
Great. My home connection's going to come with a 4GB monthly cap now too?
In a lot of ways this is actually a neat idea, and I could see something close to this catching on. I see a few problems though:
* As fast as my laptop is, I still sometimes wish it had a faster CPU, a better GPU, and more RAM. Modern phones are still around an order of magnitude slower and have a fraction of the RAM. They're not exactly desktop replacements.
* 64GB is an impressive amount of storage for a cell phone. It's pretty weak for a laptop.
* "The Cloud" is an order of magnitude or two slower than my local disk, and my local disk doesn't have a monthly data transfer limit.
* Normal people have no clue what Ubuntu is, and they're not exactly adopting it in droves, even without having to buy new hardware to support it.
So… neat idea, but I don't see this getting off the ground. If it does, though, I see a lot more idle sword fighting in my future.
"Android was designed for touch only, and has its hands full winning the tablet wars."
Be careful. I think Steve Jobs might've patented the reality distortion field.
"The Ubuntu desktop sets the standard for ease of use." Compared to what?
"And imagine TVs that become home PCs when you dock your phone: perfect for the emerging market where LTE will be the normal way for new users to connect to the Internet."
Great. My home connection's going to come with a 4GB monthly cap now too?
In a lot of ways this is actually a neat idea, and I could see something close to this catching on. I see a few problems though:
* As fast as my laptop is, I still sometimes wish it had a faster CPU, a better GPU, and more RAM. Modern phones are still around an order of magnitude slower and have a fraction of the RAM. They're not exactly desktop replacements.
* 64GB is an impressive amount of storage for a cell phone. It's pretty weak for a laptop.
* "The Cloud" is an order of magnitude or two slower than my local disk, and my local disk doesn't have a monthly data transfer limit.
* Normal people have no clue what Ubuntu is, and they're not exactly adopting it in droves, even without having to buy new hardware to support it.
So… neat idea, but I don't see this getting off the ground. If it does, though, I see a lot more idle sword fighting in my future.