Currently when I get on a boat and sail out of cell range...or take a train/subway riding a rail under a river...or get on an airplane that doesn't have wifi...or hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon...my phone still pretty much works. I can still play games, read books, listen to music, take notes. Because the apps that do those things still work without connectivity; they aren't "in the cloud".
In your hypothetical "abstracted" future, what happens? Do we just have high-speed connectivity literally everywhere so the situation doesn't come up anymore? Do those kind of places still exist but when you go there your phone turns into a useless brick? (seems suboptimal...)
If your phone DOES retain that sort of functionality in these kind of situations, doesn't that constitute having an OS?
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Currently when I get on a boat and sail out of cell range...or take a train/subway riding a rail under a river...or get on an airplane that doesn't have wifi...or hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon...my phone still pretty much works. I can still play games, read books, listen to music, take notes. Because the apps that do those things still work without connectivity; they aren't "in the cloud".
In your hypothetical "abstracted" future, what happens? Do we just have high-speed connectivity literally everywhere so the situation doesn't come up anymore? Do those kind of places still exist but when you go there your phone turns into a useless brick? (seems suboptimal...)
If your phone DOES retain that sort of functionality in these kind of situations, doesn't that constitute having an OS?
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