Quote Originally Posted by FunkyDexter View Post
You might be right. If so the only thing stopping us using our phones as desktops is the docking technology.
Well, I think it isn't so much that as a mental shift. I'm mostly in agreement with Tanner_H, but not entirely. Apple is a pretty good example, but their share of the desktop is a stagnant minority. The majority of desktop users are still using Windows, and since Windows phone is...pretty much a joke, the comparison isn't quite there, yet. The CPU power of a phone is really impressive, but you can't run Windows on a phone because the CPU is a different architecture that is focused on low power. The code won't load and run.

What I expect is that, as chips improve, we will have a device that CAN run Windows (and not because MS ports the code to some other chip architecture). We already have that, to some extent, in tablets. What I'm not sure that we have is the mindset that your tablet IS your desktop. At a recent conference, lots of the presentations ran off of Surfaces, so people are coming around, but I want to have one device. One device at the office, which I then unplug when I leave the desk. One device that allows me multiple monitors when I plug it into a docking station and a tablet (or light laptop, really) when I'm on the road. One device so that when Gruff swipes information, it isn't JUST bad information, but ALL of it (he may mistakenly swipe bad information, now, but if you had one device he could swipe the whole thing and decide later what was good and what was bad).