He makes a tons of points.

I still want my Network transparency...

Things have seriously changed... used to be heavy duty processing was expensive but displays were relatively cheaper.

Heck my Droid-X is more powerful than my Server downstairs and has more storage (24G) than the original disk space that the machine came with (9.1G).

Cheap local displays with lots of cheap local processing power has changed things a lot.

As long as I can tack on my network transparency and it works well... I don't care.