[alttab]

Form factor is just the topping. Using web apps and cloud storage is so far the most accessible way to have a seamless computing environment (versus experience, which must be different like Jobs knew). Apple or anyone else could side step those entire industries by making powerful portable smart phones that acted as a driver or data storage for other operating environments.

[Casc]

Yes. This is exactly how I feel. Let the phone drive the data/storage. The dock/mode/inputs are all situational.

Mobile will still be a mobile experience, desktop a desktop, the phone can even slide into a damn tablet...

But the same mobile device is the little chip inside the cyborg.

[drivingmenuts]

None of that solves the problem of being vulnerable to issues in the cloud, though. There are about 10 billion things that have to work correctly for your data to be accessible and safe and only 1 or 2 things that have to go wrong for it to be gone forever.

[mayanksinghal]

Which is true for local storage as well. If fact, I will argue that data on cloud is more reliable than data on my local machine. I carry it all the time, I don't have back up for a large part of it (I use versioning for code, everything else is painful); I did have some backups on external storage devices but they are more prone to faults and crashes than my internal drives. Carrying such devices around is a major hassle - actively taking backups is an even bigger task!