User:Toussaint/Mobile tower

The more mobile the environment, the smaller the form factor of the device and the more network-reliant it becomes. Software-as-a-service plays a greater role in the mobile device industry, with mobile software applications being created and updated from the server side.

We may soon devote the hard drive containing the operating system to an external server which streams the OS, applications and files to the mobile device, severely cutting back the demand for battery power from the device.

What about streaming the very processing that allows the device to function at all? Once that is accomplished, then the only thing that is left is a handheld pane of glass that displays the streamed data and streams the feedback to the larger processing suite.

This, of course, relies upon a more extensive wifi network. Such developments will prove to be more environmentally-friendly, reducing the amount of componentry necessary to enjoy a basic computing experience at the most mobile, most pervasive level.