Amazon's Jeff Bezos once revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options. Will DRAM prices make it come true?
A lot of people don’t even seem to realize that every computer is a general purpose computer, that includes the phone in your pocket. 90% of the reason an actual computer is as powerful of a tool as it is when compared to a phone comes from the difference between the software each runs. Mobile OSes treat the user with contempt. It doesn’t have to be this way. I’m seriously wishing for a pocket computer that would make traditional desktop environments usable in that form factor, because I don’t see mobile interfaces being actually useful any time soon.
Completely Agreed. What I really hate about “Mobile OSs” is the fact that they’re the most slow and bloated pieces of crap ever imagined.
Android and iOS are insults to Computing, they’re not useful for anything. People just put up with them because most of the time there is no other Option.
Most Phones right now are many times better than the Work/Gaming PC I had back in circa 2010.
Some ARM Computers even come with an NPU, or some have Instruction Set Extensions that are better than anything you can find on x86;
Some ARM Computers have literal Super Computing capabilities, yet none of that stuff is made available to the User (or if it is, only to to a limited extent) because the Manufacturers just shit out binary blobs for Android that work “good enough” and call it a day.
And then a couple years later people are expected throw out their Pocket-Sized Super Computer just to keep investors happy, it’s insanity.
A lot of people don’t even seem to realize that every computer is a general purpose computer, that includes the phone in your pocket. 90% of the reason an actual computer is as powerful of a tool as it is when compared to a phone comes from the difference between the software each runs. Mobile OSes treat the user with contempt. It doesn’t have to be this way. I’m seriously wishing for a pocket computer that would make traditional desktop environments usable in that form factor, because I don’t see mobile interfaces being actually useful any time soon.
Completely Agreed. What I really hate about “Mobile OSs” is the fact that they’re the most slow and bloated pieces of crap ever imagined.
Android and iOS are insults to Computing, they’re not useful for anything. People just put up with them because most of the time there is no other Option.
Most Phones right now are many times better than the Work/Gaming PC I had back in circa 2010.
Some ARM Computers even come with an NPU, or some have Instruction Set Extensions that are better than anything you can find on x86;
Some ARM Computers have literal Super Computing capabilities, yet none of that stuff is made available to the User (or if it is, only to to a limited extent) because the Manufacturers just shit out binary blobs for Android that work “good enough” and call it a day.
And then a couple years later people are expected throw out their Pocket-Sized Super Computer just to keep investors happy, it’s insanity.