I have been thinking a lot about how much computing power is being packed into phones these days. After seeing the Pixel specs recently, it occurred to me that this thing has more power than my laptop that I bought just a few years ago. I use this laptop every day for everything, and yet the newest phones blow it out of the water.
But what is all this extra power for? Modern phones, with all their power, still can't do the things that my less powerful laptop can do. Nearly every website has at least one vital feature that only works on desktop and not on mobile. There are desktop programs that either have no equivalent on mobile, or have watered down versions that pretend to be equivalent.
Every year, we see more and more impressive features come to phones, but many of them are cloud based features and do not actually taking advantage of the hardware. It seems as though the hardware specs and the software features have become less and less intertwined.
My question is who and/or what are these super powerful phones for? Clearly, they are not for replacing desktop computers, as anyone who has tried keeps their old laptop around for something. Clearly, they are not to support new features, as many of computing load is on the cloud servers and not the phone. What am I missing?
Submitted November 28, 2016 at 07:46AM by qazwsxedc813 http://ift.tt/2gwxwyd via TikTokTikk
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