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Re:Windows Phone 8 Apollo detailed, will have Windows 8 inte... by wmf on Thursday February 02, 2012 @05:56PM (#3544912)
MS may be prepared to deliver something like that, since they have the old Danger/Kin stuff which was based on what you would call a fat cache architecture. MS also appears to be moving to a single-runtime (WinRT) future, so the "same" app may be available on phones, tablets, and desktops.

The idea of migrating an app session between devices is going to be pretty difficult in most cases because people use different apps on different devices to access the same data; Twitter is an extreme example but there are plenty of others.

Re:Windows Phone 8 Apollo detailed, will have Windows 8 inte... by stcredzero on Thursday February 02, 2012 @06:08PM (#3544964)
people use different apps on different devices to access the same data

They do right now because they have to. Different apps/methods are best on different devices, and there's not enough thought to moving interfaces between devices. But if users didn't have to, and the mechanism worked well, they'd love it.