On 9 Mar 2010 at 17:40, Jon Harris wrote:
> There was also electronic picture frames that had malware installed by
> the Chinese that did the same thing. I still prefer a phone that is a
> phone not awork-a-like computer. Just my perception. The more you put
> into devices the more problems that device will have long term. Just
> because the bug was not designed for the phone does not mean that the
> writers of the bug can not or will not adapt the bug to infect the
> phone. We load as few services on a server to reduce the surface area
> of attack there is no reason to not take this to the mobile phone
> sphere.
Read a very interesting blog entry by ESR a few days ago which is relevant to
this thread. Here are the first few paragraphs:
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How smartphones will disrupt PCs
Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive
I never bought the hype that laptops were going to obsolesce the
conventional desktop PC, nor do I buy today´s version of the hype about
netbooks. The reason I didn´t is simple: display and keyboard ergonomics.
I use and like a Lenovo X61 Thinkpad happily when traveling, but for
steady day-to-day work nothing beats having a big ol´ keyboard and a
display with lots of pixels. I have a Samsung 1100DF, 2048×1536, and it
may be a huge end-of-lifed boat anchor but I won´t give it up for a
flatscreen with lower resolution and less screen real estate.
But now I´m going to reverse myself and predict that smartphones - not
today´s smartphones, but their descendants three to five years out, will
displace the PC. Here´s what I think my computing experience is going to
look like, oh, about 2014:
All my software development projects and personal papers live on the same
device I make my phone calls from. It looks a lot like the G1 now sitting
on the desk inches from my left hand; a handful of buttons, a small
flatscreen, and a cable/charger port. My desk has three other things on
it: a keyboard about the size of the one I have now, a display larger than
the one I have now, and an optical drive. Wires from all three run to a
small cradle base in which my phone sits; this also doubles as a USB hub,
and has an Ethernet cable running to my house network. And that´s my
computer.
(In a slight variation, the screen and keyboard devices don´t have wires
to the phone; instead, they talk to it via wireless son-of-Bluetooth. But
wires have a significant advantage, as we´ll see below.)
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More here: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1759
Moore's Law rules. I think he's right.
Angus
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