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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by doublerebel on Sunday June 19, 2016 @04:59PM (#11934653)
We could easily fit more storage (and more battery) on phones, there just isn't the market demand for it. With such a decentralized system, demand may increase.

Most knowledge as we use it now is ephemeral and can be somewhat centralized safely. The permanent knowledge or at least the trusted hashes of that knowledge can travel with us.

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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by bitstacker on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @05:01PM (#11949374)
Trouble with doing it all through phones:

- Data plans. Everyone connecting to your blog through your phone would use up a hell of a lot of data.

- iPhones are notoriously hostile to P2P apps, so that rules out about half of all smartphone users.

There are other issues but those are the most significant imo.

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