Why isn’t my iPhone my PC?

16Nov09

I’ve been thinking about this for a while.  Why can’t my iPhone be my computer as well?  Novel idea, right?

Here’s how it should work.  Let’s say I arrive back at my office after a sales meeting downtown.  I set my iPhone down on my desktop and plug in my monitor to the iPhone USB port (this USB port would obviously have to be added).    As soon as my fancy 24 inch monitor is plugged into the iPhone, the iPhone screen is replicated on my monitor.  My bluetooth keyboard and mouse automatically connect to the iPhone and tada, I’m in business.

Now comes the interesting part.  How do I run the MAC OS, or perhaps I want to run Windows 7.  Simple.  There are iPhone apps for each operating sytem.  So if I’m a Windows 7 kind of guy, which I am currently, I click on the Windows 7 iPhone application and Windows 7 runs and I have my desktop on my iPhone.  Obviously you will also have iPhone apps each popular OS out there, MAC OS, Linux variants like Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, etc.

Now that I have my PC on my iPhone, you can start to imagine add-on iPhone products being created to support this absolutely excellent new iPhone/PC feature.  Like, how about a laptop that really isn’t a laptop at all.   It’s just like a laptop, it has a keyboard, mouse and monitor but no computer guts.  You plug your iPhone into this gutless laptop and and your OS of choice boots (or is restored like a regular laptop).

I’m not sure why it’s not out there yet.  You could do the same with the Android, or any other mobile phone device with enough memory, processing power and storage to do the job.

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