Apple and others are going to have to start thinking a bit more about sustainability, the form factors of all phones are pretty much set now, if a phone can shoot and edit 4K there’s not much need for massive changes to processor architecture, most of the AR/VR and AI work is already happening in data centres and new features in HTML are a lot slower in adoption than a yearly release cycle.
This summer is going to focus minds on environmental issues (finally), being the first company valued at 1 Trillion dollars is going to draw attention to economic sustainability and a lot of people are fully aware of the social sustainability issues of smart technology and the external costs of all three aspects.
I disagree phones have a long way to go until they are feature complete. Most phones have a melt down if you try and playback 4K hdr or a game. Batteries last just a few hours.
The ultimate very long term aim is to completely take over the tablet, laptop and desktop market with a single ‘compute’ device that you can dock into what ever form factor you need.
The S9 already comes with a dock and ‘pc like experience’, that is the way the market is ultimately going to go.
First will come the integration between devices, on Apple it is already here.
Tablets will then take over from Laptops which again is already happening slowly.
Finally phones will just take over from tablets and desktops.
Call me crazy but if you look back at the last 15 years I don’t think it’s far fetched looking at the next 20.