Why have hardware do the task alone, when it can team up with software and services to do the job easier and better? Think of how cars have developed over the years — from diesel to unleaded gasoline to electricity, we’ve refined the fuel that goes in the car, not the car itself. A car still has four wheels, an engine and a steering wheel. A smartphone’s hardware is the car itself — you can’t reinvent the wheel, and you can’t realistically expand what a smartphone is either. Software is the destination, where you want to take the car. What we need to change is the fuel — in this case, the processing. Processing on the phone itself is diesel — cloud processing is nitro-boosted gasoline.
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