I agree and mores the pity. Jon
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]>wrote: > 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: > > ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- > 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.) > > --------- Included Stuff Ends --------- > More here: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1759 > > Moore's Law rules. I think he's right. > > Angus > > > -- > Angus Scott-Fleming > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > 1-520-895-3270 > Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
