Microsoft to pay out 'billions' as part of Nokia deal

You wouldn't, I wouldn't, but we are at the extreme right end of the spectrum. Most people don't have nearly as high requirements as we do, nor do they have the same skills we have.

So don't base your guesses for the future on what you need. Base them on what your mother needs (unless she is Admiral Grace Hopper).

Maybe a laptop shell that when you place your phone in it, transforms into a full featured OS? Imagine an MacBook air without the guts.

Ah yes. That is what I would have thought. I was out of home for the last 4 days with no internet connectivity on my laptop. I actually made checkins to production with ssh on my iphone. It was an absolute pain to do but got the job done. Not so much the "screen size" but more the painful typing. Point is if push came to shove, I actually managed to fixing critical bugs SSHing from my phone. Marginal improvement in my productivity would be higher from a better keyboard than a bigger screen!