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Mark wrote:

Not a laptop, which is only for coders basically.

We can not do maximally productive work of nearly any kind of creative arts on a mobile device. The screen is too small, the keyboard is too slow, and the pointing device is too imprecise.

Millions if not billions will have to do productive creative arts work in the coming Knowledge Age.

I do think our mobile device may become the CPU for docking station where we do maximally productive work.

Mark wrote:

Creative work on mobile devices is increasing rapidly. Users' work on iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is phenomenal.

You stated earlier tablets were dying.

Shelby wrote on other blog:

Thus mobile is still secondary to major things in life such as employment or investment.

Sentio, a reusable (on any Android device) commodity hardware + OS laptop docking station, was the most funded Kickstarter project ever. The desktop version failed to get funded.

I want one of these but I want a larger screen and keyboard, plus I probably also want to be able to plug it into a large monitor and external keyboard because I don’t lug my desktop through airport security every time I relocate my life (mobile CPUs are getting more powerful especially when plugged in). Jack Ma pointed out that the youth will travel an order-of-magnitude more than our generation did.

Thus the multithreading (multitasking) restrictions and limited screen resolutions of iPhone could become a significant disadvantage.

Apple has a design for such a docking laptop which cleverly seems to use the iPhone touchscreen as the pointing device touchpad with 60% of voters interested. However, seems Apple may be planning more around augmented reality than the bread-and-butter employment computing where those affluent make their money in order to be able to pay Apple $1 per day.

Apple probably wants to steer away from any convergence of mobile with large screen productivity because this favors commodification of hardware + OS. But the marketing concept of vertically integrated (walled garden ecosystem) tablets replacing laptops is failing. I fundamentally believe the future is one of people doing productive work on large screens. This is a fundamental disagreement about the future. Again I think the collapse of socialism and employment due to automation will drive the knowledge age with employment more on creative work (Jack Ma is reiterating my theme from 4 - 5 years ago). And if I am correct about the collapse of socialism, then those who do not do creative work, will not have money to spend on Apple products. I raise this issue one more time because I think it is very important and it seems to me you swiped it away without sufficiently addressing it.

Also I have studied the Android malware scene a bit this morning and I think the Android market will go bananas for a better sandbox for apps. Most apps do not need all the capabilities that are exposed via the Android OS security model.

Edit: discussion continued on Bitcointalk.

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