Except that in only a few countries are you able to go that far. Most places require you to stop short of the lethal dose and live in excruciating agony for as long a your systems (and technology) will support you. Have a nice day.
"The future could see smartphone's containing as much processing power as your current desktop."
"So I'll have to wait 5 minutes before my smartphone has finally booted?"
Yup. Same as it ever was. Next up: Implant boot times.
I can't wait for this, and the ensuing lawsuits. Am I lawsuit happy? Perhaps, but the first time client PII or similar data is lost through this practice, there will be a lawsuit faster than you can say "failure to perform due diligence".
That said I believe there are "right" ways to do this. Virtual machines, remote desktops, mobile apps, sandboxes, etc. My company has no problem buying an employee a Mac or Linux machine or iPad when the work really requires it. With apologies to MasterCard, for everything else there's VirtualBox.
"Just think of a computer as hardware you can program." -- Nigel de la Tierre