>>>>>>Well said. MS has been giving John who knows how much assistance and that colors his remarks, without disclosure.
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>>>>>>iPhone what, though? ;-) Maybe Android will overtake it but the market leader now is clear.
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>>>>>Oh really? http://www.scottlogic.co.uk/blog/colin/2011/04/gartner-predicts-a-promising-future-for-windows-phone-7-developers/
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>>>>Snip: " Regardless of OS, smartphones are powerful enough to support almost any application that you might have targeted for desktop production..."
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>>>>Hmmm.
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>>>Any doubts ? Think machines ~2003, slower CPU, similar RAM but faster [solid] disk..
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>>Think VS2010, Autocad, Photoshop, any professional multi-track recording/mixing software, etc..
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>Okay, sould have specced biz app more clearly.
He didn't specify *business* applications at all (s)

> But from your list:
>VS2010 : MS bloatware would run lousy. [eclipse as well] [as they do on Atom-Netbooks]
>Autocad : there were versions running last century. Dunno what changed, not my speciality. SWAG: Perf will depend on graphic engine.
>Photoshop: Connect to a big screen (Full HD TV) and only go for functionality from around 2002.

If you connect a smartphone to a large screen you just end up with a desktop with poor graphics capability.

>any professional multi-track recording/mixing software:
>Audio probably easiest, if encoding is supported by HW now (dunno, guess so), video only decoding in HW, so overnight...

Then the artiste would have to play *very* slowly (g) . Also presumably a bit hard to plug, say, 16 audio inputs into a smart phone?

>Do you think desktop SW has really stepped forward in the last 12 years ? I see much more window dressing/marketing BS [Ribbons].

I think current hardware has the *potential* to support better software - low level parallel processing on multi-processor machines for example.

Best,
Viv