This concept is exactly where I predict things will/should go. No idea if this particular product is any good though.
It's wasteful and expensive to duplicate components across many devices. Have them in one device, with other devices sharing them / as dumb terminals to them. If I want to do something on my phone, but on a big screen, I should be able to pull out a big dumb screen that talks to my phone. Of course in this scenario replace "phone" with "hub."
Counterpoint: as we gain the tech to do this kind of things, the hardware may become so cheap that we gain very little cost savings from not duplicating most of it.
Isn't this essentially the model for wearables already? Except with the opposite relationship: the phone is the smart device and the watch is relatively "dumb". This makes sense since it is easier for my phone to be much larger and more powerful, I can also take it out of my pocket if it gets too hot, etc. It looks like in this case they've made the watch smart and the larger screen dumb, which is novel, but I'm not sure I see the advantages. Also, I am much more apt to lose my watch than my phone, but maybe that is just me.
It's wasteful and expensive to duplicate components across many devices. Have them in one device, with other devices sharing them / as dumb terminals to them. If I want to do something on my phone, but on a big screen, I should be able to pull out a big dumb screen that talks to my phone. Of course in this scenario replace "phone" with "hub."
Counterpoint: as we gain the tech to do this kind of things, the hardware may become so cheap that we gain very little cost savings from not duplicating most of it.