Are you suggesting that the economy of scale has reached a point where the smartphone would be more cost-effective even with those features?
Are you suggesting that the economy of scale has reached a point where the smartphone would be more cost-effective even with those features?
This is a futuristic idea - think of the 80s and the 8086 has just come out, but one day you're going to challenge the mainframes. How do we make a household capable of being an Amazon
Put a sysadmin in every household. Personal servers have been a thing in geek houses for decades.
We're starting to get more domestic computer appliances: PVRs, consoles, home NAS gizmos, increasingly smart routers. Nest. Smart lightbulbs. However, because very few people have the skill, time, and inclination to manage these things, they're subject to the management of their OEM. Who will do the profit-maximising thing.
"Services" are wrappers around "solutions" which are wrappers around a collection of products. People generally don't want to learn to install 10 different products, or even 3 different solutions. They want one service provider, and they're happy to pay a premium for that.