Completely unformed and probably original thought: but is there something innately more environmentally friendly about a medium which is forced to deal with the limited power provided by batteries, and is therefore efficient by design; and which is deliberately minimal in its use of bandwidth and networked resources?
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Probably it comes down to whether you are replacing something people used to do in a less efficient way, or whether you are in fact encouraging additional power/bandwidth usage on top of everything everyone still does inefficiently...
Posted by: Tom Godber | December 14, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Only if you do your compute on the handset, and only on the handset. If you are just front-ending a massive hot datacentre with quad core planet-heaters to do your compute, then not so green, I suspect.
Posted by: daveph | December 18, 2008 at 05:42 AM