Back in 2005, I published an article on using a mobile phone plus dock as a home computer. The basic idea was “If you go through the effort of learning how to use a smartphone, why should you have to go to additional effort to learn the interfaces of a desktop operating system?” It was greeted with derision by all of my friends in the tech and venture capital worlds.
Now it seems that Apple may deliver a portion of the idea: http://www.cultofmac.com/iphone-5-will-enable-ambitious-remote-computing/66825
[Thanks to Ryan Tate for letting me know about this.]
I like your 2007 iPhone thoughts:
…Apple introduces its first phone today. It is a bit tough to tell from looking at Apple’s Web site, but it appears that this is yet another smartphone that is not a flip-phone. In other words, if it brushes up against something in your pocket it will make or answer unwanted calls. Basically all Japanese phones are flip-phones and it baffles me as to how American consumers are denied the simple interface of “open to make or answer a call; flip closed to hang up”.
Apple gives us an MP3 player, which other brands of smart phones have had for several years. What I want is a phone that won’t make calls from inside my pocket.