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I agree with most of what you said, but this paragraph stands out. Why do you not want an "everything and the kitchen sink" application on the mobile? You mentioned three things: Size, battery life, and "brevity" (that last one might be size, though). This is the point I was making. You care about size and battery life because they are currently limiting factors on lots of mobile devices. These are externally imposed hardware limitations...

The point is that you are deciding on what to do with the phone at least in part because of the limitations imposed by the hardware. Those limitations are what I envision going away.

I guess my assumption is that most improvements in technology are matched by our ability to max out those improvements.

Take storage, for example. In 10 years, maybe a terabyte of storage will be cheap and commonplace for phones. But I imagine we'll also have 3D photos, holographic videos, and 40-point surround-sound audio that quickly fills that space the same way our meager mp3s, h.264 videos, and JPEGs do now.

And even if we do eventually reach inflection points where technology outpaces our ability to max it out, I still think there's the question of "why try to make a phone do something a laptop can do better?" I think we've seen this same "everything and the kitchen sink" approach tried elsewhere, for example Smart TVs, and the overwhelming response from consumers seems to be that they're fine with a TV being a TV, and a phone being a phone, and a PC being a PC.

These technologies ultimately end up sharing certain features, but at least in our lifetimes, they've never really converged. They coexist. But I'm willing to admit that perhaps I'm just not imaginative enough about the benefits of convergence!

(Also, by "brevity" in mobile software I mostly meant UI. If a program (like Office) does a million different things, I don't know how you expose those million different features on a tiny phone screen, regardless of how advanced the screen or processor or flash storage is. Human hands need a certain amount of space to accomplish things - but maybe the answer is a different paradigm, like voice commands? idk)