I don&#x27;t want more shit relying on a 1 GBps, sub millisecond latency internet connection. Even if bandwidth has gotten better in the past decade (although it&#x27;s doing so logarithmically), latency is still there no matter what you do, and sadly the speed of light makes it that no matter what you do, you can&#x27;t do NYC-Paris in less than 40 milliseconds. You can use tons of tricks to somewhat massage that fact, but at the end of the day the physical limit is there.<p>Not everyone is living in your Google Fiber bubble. If you&#x27;re going to design the cellphone of the future, you probably don&#x27;t want the base assumption of your design to be that the user will always be in an area with high bandwidth, low latency environment, because that represents a minuscule fraction of cellphone users.<p>Sadly, that&#x27;s what happens when all of the startups are based in an echo chamber - they lose sight of the fact that not everyone has the same conditions as them. Well, tech has the nice habit of cyclically reinventing shit, so I&#x27;m glad we&#x27;re going to spend a few years banging our heads against thin clients again.<p>Homework reading for the founders and employees of this company:
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