Thread: Alternative history: What if Jolla never existed?
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2015-11-23 , 08:37
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#147
Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
It still matters in many cases - one example is power consumption. Battery capacity is not growing much if at all and even with more power efficient hardware a badly written program that results in needless 100% CPU utilization at all time while it is running will make the device run out of power very quickly
Remember Asha's express browser? The JavaScript actually ran on Nokia's servers and a compressed data stream was then sent to the device for display on the screen. When the network becomes fast enough and wide enough that we're 'always connected' then the phone only needs to be a thin client. Your OS, apps and data could exist on a server and be automatically updated. The device you're carrying wouldn't need as much grunt and so would consume as much power.
 

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