← Back to context Comment by Cheer2171 4 days ago But that is what they are mostly used for. 1 comment Cheer2171 Reply TheOtherHobbes 4 days ago On phones, most of the compute is used to render media files and games, and make pretty animated UIs.The text content of a weather app is trivial compared to the UI.Same with many web pages.Desktop apps use local compute, but that's more a limitation of latency and network bandwidth than any fundamental need to keep things local.Security and privacy also matter to some people. But not to most.
TheOtherHobbes 4 days ago On phones, most of the compute is used to render media files and games, and make pretty animated UIs.The text content of a weather app is trivial compared to the UI.Same with many web pages.Desktop apps use local compute, but that's more a limitation of latency and network bandwidth than any fundamental need to keep things local.Security and privacy also matter to some people. But not to most.
On phones, most of the compute is used to render media files and games, and make pretty animated UIs.
The text content of a weather app is trivial compared to the UI.
Same with many web pages.
Desktop apps use local compute, but that's more a limitation of latency and network bandwidth than any fundamental need to keep things local.
Security and privacy also matter to some people. But not to most.